Parambassis

Taxobox
name = "Parambassis"

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image_caption = Indian glassy fish, "Parambassis ranga"
("Painted" specimen)
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
subordo = Percoidei
superfamilia = Percoidea
familia = Ambassidae
genus = "Parambassis"
genus_authority = Bleeker, 1874
type_species = "Ambassis apogonoides", Bleeker, 1851
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
"(see text)"

"Parambassis", is a genus of freshwater fish in the Asiatic glassfish family (Ambassidae) of order Perciformes. The type species is the iridescent glassy perchlet ("P. apogonoides").

These fishes originate mostly from Southeast Asia, but the species range across the Indomalaya and Australasia ecozones, from Pakistan and India down through Indonesia, New Guinea, and Australia.

The "Parambassis" species range in maximum size from 3 - 20 cm (1.2 - 7.9 in), but they are similar in appearance, with a lozenge-shaped form, typical perciform fins, and semi-transparent or transparent body.

Several of the species are common food fish in local markets, and some (most notably the Indian glassy fish, "Parambassis ranga") are kept as aquarium fish.

pecies

* High-finned glass perchlet , "Parambassis altipinnis" Allen, 1982
* Iridescent glassy perchlet, "Parambassis apogonoides" (Bleeker, 1851)
* Sepik glassy perchlet, "Parambassis confinis" (Weber, 1913)
* Day's glassy perchlet, "Parambassis dayi" (Bleeker, 1874)
* Giant glassfish, "Parambassis gulliveri" (Castelnau, 1878)
* Highfin glassy perchlet, "Parambassis lala" (Hamilton, 1822)
* "Parambassis macrolepis" (Bleeker, 1857)
* "Parambassis pulcinella" Kottelat, 2003
* Indian glassy fish, "Parambassis ranga" (Hamilton, 1822)
* "Parambassis siamensis" (Fowler, 1937)
* "Parambassis tenasserimensis" Roberts, 1994
* Western Ghat glassy perchlet, "Parambassis thomasi" (Day, 1870)
* "Parambassis vollmeri" Roberts, 1994
* Duskyfin glassy perchlet, "Parambassis wolffii" (Bleeker, 1851)

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