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climbing perch

noun

  1. a brown labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, having a specialized breathing apparatus that enables it to leave the water and move about on land.


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Origin of climbing perch1

First recorded in 1870–75
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“Only with ongoing education and surveillance are we going to prevent climbing perch from arriving in northern Australia,†he said.

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Like Anabas, the climbing perch, it possesses a suprabranchial accessory respiratory organ.

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Two rather remarkable fishes are the climbing perch and the archer-fish.

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Doubtless the reader has heard of the "climbing perch," a tropical fish which is partially amphibious, and which abounds in Ceylon.

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We cannot entirely exclude even fishes from our list; as the absence of mangroves would incidentally affect the climbing perch and catfishes!

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