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Eels, snakeheads and air-breathing swamp fish

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Anabas testudineus

Anabas testudineus, the climbing perch (also called climbing bass, ikan betok), is an air-breathing anabantid fish native to tropical Asia, growing to 25 cm, able to walk on land and survive days out of water, farmed as food and studied for mucus peptides.

Anguillidae

Anguillidae is a family within the order Anguilliformes. The genus Anguilla contains about 20 species distributed in tropical and temperate zones, completing their life cycle at sea.

Channa striata

Channa striata, the striped snakehead or snakehead murrel (haruan), is an air-breathing freshwater predator fish of Channidae native from Pakistan to southeast Asia, cultured widely, IUCN Least Concern, a species complex.

Monopterus albus

Monopterus albus, the Asian swamp eel or rice-field eel (鳝鱼), is an air-breathing synbranchid fish of Asia, a major Chinese aquaculture species, a protogynous sex-reversing vertebrate, and a High-risk U.S. invasive established in Florida, Georgia, and Hawaii.

Osphronemus goramy

Osphronemus goramy, the giant gourami (ikan gurami), is a large Southeast Asian labyrinth fish, up to 70 cm SL, farmed for food, an obligate air-breather building plant-fiber nests, IUCN Least Concern.

Oxyeleotris marmorata

Oxyeleotris marmorata, the marbled goby (Soon Hock, Ketutu), is a large Southeast Asian freshwater sleeper (Eleotridae) described by Bleeker in 1852, a high-priced food fish farmed in aquaculture and listed IUCN Least Concern.