Microctenopoma ansorgii is a small freshwater

Freshwater

Fresh water is naturally occurring water on the Earth's surface in ice sheets, ice caps, glaciers, bogs, ponds, lakes, rivers and streams, and underground as groundwater in aquifers and underground streams. Fresh water is generally characterized by having low concentrations of dissolved salts and...

 fish

Fish

Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...

, known in the aquarium

Aquarium

An aquarium is a vivarium consisting of at least one transparent side in which water-dwelling plants or animals are kept. Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, marine mammals, turtles, and aquatic plants...

 trade as the Ornate ctenopoma, Orange Ctenopoma, Ornate climbing perch, Pretty ctenopoma, or Rainbow ctenopoma. It belongs to the same genus as the Spotted Climbing Perch (Ctenopoma acutirostre) but looks very different. Its body is more elongated and rounded, the typical shape of a fish that spends much of its time sitting on the bottom. The Ornate ctenopoma spawns at night, laying its eggs on a floating bubble nest of mucus

Mucus

In vertebrates, mucus is a slippery secretion produced by, and covering, mucous membranes. Mucous fluid is typically produced from mucous cells found in mucous glands. Mucous cells secrete products that are rich in glycoproteins and water. Mucous fluid may also originate from mixed glands, which...

. It lives in the slow-flowing forest streams of the Congo basin

Congo Basin

The Congo Basin is the sedimentary basin that is the drainage of the Congo River of west equatorial Africa. The basin begins in the highlands of the East African Rift system with input from the Chambeshi River, the Uele and Ubangi Rivers in the upper reaches and the Lualaba River draining wetlands...

, where it feeds on worms, insect larva

Larva

A larva is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle...

e and other aquatic invertebrate

Invertebrate

An invertebrate is an animal without a backbone. The group includes 97% of all animal species – all animals except those in the chordate subphylum Vertebrata .Invertebrates form a paraphyletic group...

s it finds amongst mud and fallen leaves.

Junior Synonyms

Junior synonym refers to a scientific name applied to a species after its initially published name (senior synonym).

• Anabas ansorgii (Boulenger, 1912)
• Anabas davidae (Poll, 1939)
• Ctenopoma ansorgei (Boulenger, 1912)
• Ctenopoma ansorgii (Boulenger, 1912)
• Ctenopoma davidae (Poll, 1939)
• Microctenopoma ansorgei (Boulenger, 1912)