Luciocephalus

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Luciocephalus
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Luciocephalus pulcher
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anabantiformes
Family: Osphronemidae
Subfamily: Luciocephalinae
Genus: Luciocephalus
Bleeker, 1851
Type species
Diplopterus pulcher
J. E. Gray, 1830 [1]
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Synonyms
  • DiplopterusJ. E. Gray, 1830 (Preoccupied)

Luciocephalus is a genus of gouramies native to Southeast Asia. [2] Both are extremely specialized niche predators native to parts of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei Darussalam; in addition, both species - like a number of other osphronemid genera - are paternal mouthbrooders.

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus: [2]

References

  1. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Luciocephalus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  2. 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Luciocephalus". FishBase . February 2014 version.


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