Taxonavigation
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Osphronemidae
Subfamilia: Macropodusinae
Genus: Betta
Species: Betta kuehnei
Name
Betta kuehnei Schindler & Schmidt, 2008
Type locality: around 35 km south of Panjang, which presumably refers to the border settlement of Rantau Panjang, Kelantan state, northeastern Peninsular Malaysia.
Etymology: Species is named in appreciation after German aquarist and fish explorer Jens Kühne, who first purchased the catch and sent them out for identification.
References
Ingo Schindler & Jürgen Schmidt, 2008, Bulletin of Fish Biology 10 (1/2): 39–46