Thick-lipped gourami not yet ready to spawn. The thick-lipped gourami has been deliberately crossbred with the banded gourami and the dwarf gourami to produce hybrids with new color patterns; these colors include gold, red, and green. Thick-lipped gourami The thick-lipped gourami ("Trichogaster labiosa") is a species of gourami native to Southeast Asia. It is a popular aquarium fish. Thick-lipped gouramis can reach a length of TL. They are sexually dimorphic, with the female being silvery, but the male marked with oblique thin red and blue stripes along its flanks. This fish is a freshwater species native to south Myanmar. It has also
Bucca (mythological creature) Bucca (mythological creature) Bucca is a male sea-spirit in Cornish folklore - a merman- that inhabited mines and coastal communities as a hobgoblin during storms. The mythological creature is a type of water spirit likely related to the Púca from Irish and Welsh folklore and the female mari-morgans - a type of mermaid from Welsh and Breton mythology. Rev W. S. Lach-Szyrma, one 19th-century writer on Cornish antiquities, suggested the Bucca had originally been an ancient pagan deity of the sea such as Irish Nechtan or British Nodens, though his claims are mainly conjecture.. Folklore however records votive food offerings