oligolepis

Updated: May 5, 2025

The fish which the moodliar sent to me is an Anabas, closely resembling the Perca scandens of Daldorf; but on minute examination it proves to be a species unknown in India, and hitherto found only in Boreno and China. It is the A. oligolepis of Bleek.

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon