''Betta hipposideros'' is a species of gourami native to

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

; its range extends southwards to the

Riau Archipelago The Riau Archipelago is a ''geographic'' term (as opposed to administrative region) for the core group of islands within the Riau Islands Province in Indonesia, and located south of Singapore and east of Riau on Sumatra. Before the province of Ri ...

. It is an inhabitant of blackwater swamps. This species grows to a length of .

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hipposideros Freshwater fish of Malaysia Freshwater fish of Sumatra Taxa named by Peter Kee Lin Ng Taxa named by Maurice Kottelat Fish described in 1994 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{anabantiformes-stub