Leopard Bush Climbing Perch Ctenopoma acutirostre

The Leopard Bush Climbing Perch, also Spotted Climbing Perch/Ctenopoma, is a gourami (has lung-like labyrinth organ to take oxygen from air as well as having gills). It is native to well-vegetated forest waters, both fast-flowing and stagnant, of central Africa's Congo Basin. It can grow to as much as 20cm long. The young are more clearly spotted.

It has a pointed snout and a black spot before the tail, but the Tailspot Ctenopoma is a different, Northwest African, species. Leopard Bush fishes are ambush predators - hiding in wait to lunge their aquadynamic shape at passing prey. They are egg scatterers, with no role in parenting. Populations are threatened by by-catch and pollution.