Microctenopoma ansorgii

Ornate ctenopoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Anabantidae
Genus:	Microctenopoma
Species:	M. ansorgii
Binomial name
Microctenopoma ansorgii (Boulenger, 1912)
Synonyms
Anabas ansorgii (Boulenger, 1912) Anabas davidae (Poll, 1939) Ctenopoma ansorgei (Boulenger, 1912) Ctenopoma ansorgii (Boulenger, 1912) Ctenopoma davidae (Poll, 1939) Microctenopoma ansorgei (Boulenger, 1912)

Microctenopoma ansorgii is a small freshwater fish, known in the aquarium trade as the ornate ctenopoma, orange ctenopoma, ornate climbing perch, pretty ctenopoma, or rainbow ctenopoma. It belongs to the same genus as the spotted climbing perch (Ctenopoma acutirostre), but looks very different.^[1] Its body is more elongated and rounded, the typical shape of a fish that spends much of its time on the bottom. The ornate ctenopoma spawns at night, laying its eggs on a floating bubble nest of mucus. It lives in the slow-flowing forest streams of the Congo Basin, where it feeds on worms, insect larvae, and other aquatic invertebrates.^[2]

References

1. Steven M. Norris, Michael E. Douglas. A New Species of Nest-building Ctenopoma (Teleostei, Anabantidae) from Zaire, with a Redescription of Ctenopoma lineatum (Nichols) Copeia, vol. 1991, no. 1 (Feb. 7, 1991), pp. 166–178 doi:10.2307/1446261
2. • Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2008). "Microctenopoma ansorgii" in FishBase. September 2008 version.