Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Theodore Cantor" in Vietnamese language version.
The real fighting fish appears to be a variety produced by artificial means, like the varieties of the golden carp of China, and Dr. Cantor named it Macropodus pugnax. When the fish is in estate of quiet, with the fins at rest, its dull colours...
In his book, Malayan Fishes, Cantor describes and illustrates the imported Siamese fighting fishes he had seen in... Anyway, he named a new species, called Macropodus pugnax Cantor, based on his Penang specimens, and said the...
His descriptions constitute not only the first published records of Malayan fresh-water fishes but also include a new species, Macropodus pugnax Cantor. Cantor's collections, which consist partly of skins and partly of spirit specimens, were...
The fighting Betta appeared as early as Cantor's 1 849 Catalog of Malayan Fishes where it was recognized (with illustrations) as different but a variant from the Macropodus pugnax with which it was grouped.
Coluber dhumnades Cantor, 1842 by original designation. Was synonymised with Ptyas by Wall (1923b) and Taylor (1965).
