Ctenopoma ansorgei

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This small fish, known in the aquarium trade as the Ornate Ctenopoma, belongs to the same genus as the Spotted Climbing Perch (Ctenopoma acutirostre) but looks very different. Its body is more elongated and rounded, the typical shape of a fish that spends much of its time sitting 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 it finds amongst mud and fallen leaves.

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A New Species of Nest Building Ctenopoma (Teleostei, Anabantidae) from Zaire, with a Redescription of Ctenopoma lineatum (Nichols) Steven M. Norris, Michael E. Douglas Copeia, Vol. 1991, No. 1 (Feb. 7, 1991), pp. 166-178 doi:10.2307/1446261