Pseudosphromenus dayi
Pseudosphromenus dayi is a species of freshwater ray finned fish from the subfamily Macropodusinae, part of the gourami family Osphronemidae. It occurs in Kerala on both the coastal regions and the Western Ghats. It is a species of still or slow flowing waters, especially lakes, ditches and swamps in both fresh and brackish waters. "Pseudosphromenus dayi" is a bubble nester, the male creates a nest made of bubbles under an overhang or a leaf. The females lays eggs which drop to the substrate and are picked up by both fishes in the pair and placed in the bubble nest. The name "Polyacanthus cupanus dayi" was first published in 1908 by Köhler in 1908 but "Catalog of Fishes" refers to this as a "nomen nudum" and attributes the valid use of the name, with a formal description, to P. Engmann in 1909. The type locality is given as Malacca which is probably an error and should be Kerala. The specific name honors the British ichthyologist and author of the "Fishes of India", Francis Day (1830–1889).
Q127282
ray finned fish
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Q164280
subfamily
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Q10575588
Macropodusinae
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Q726399
gourami
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Q35409
family
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Q726399
Osphronemidae
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Q1186
Kerala
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Q4527
Western Ghats
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Q9185167
Catalog of Fishes
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Q844326
nomen nudum
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Q1361864
description
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Q3707858
type locality
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Q185221
Malacca
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Q908437
specific name
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Q842438
British
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Q60242
ichthyologist
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Q2069778
Francis Day
PER
Q2936608
Pseudosphromenus dayi
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Q2936608
Pseudosphromenus dayi
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1908-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1908
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1908-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1908
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1909-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1909
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+1830^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
1830
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+1889^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
1889
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taxon rank
parent taxon
parent taxon
taxon rank
located in the administrative territorial entity