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{{Short description|Species of fish}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Pseudosphromenus dayi.jpg
| status = VU
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Dahanukar, N. |author2=Rema Devi, K.R. |date=2020 |title=''Pseudosphromenus dayi'' |volume=2020 |page=e.T169623A177056991 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T169623A177056991.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| taxon = Pseudosphromenus dayi
| authority = ([[Walter Köhler (naturalist)|Köhler]], 1908)
| synonyms = *''Macropodus dayi'' (Köhler, 1908)
*''Parosphromenus dayi'' (Köhler, 1908)
*''Polyacanthus dayi'' Köhler, 1908
| synonyms_ref = <ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase|Pseudosphromenus|dayi|month=August|year=2019}}</ref>
}}

'''''Pseudosphromenus dayi''''' is a species of freshwater [[ray finned fish]] from the [[subfamily]] [[Macropodusinae]], part of the [[gourami]] [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Osphronemidae]]. It occurs in [[Kerala]] on both the coastal regions and the [[Western Ghats]].<ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021" /> It is a species of still or slow flowing waters, especially lakes, ditches and swamps<ref name = Fishbase/> in both fresh and brackish waters. ''Pseudosphromenus dayi'' is a bubble nester, the male creates a nest made of bubbles under an overhang or a leaf. The females lays eggs which drop to the substrate and are picked up by both fishes in the pair and placed in the bubble nest.<ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021" /> The name ''Polyacanthus cupanus dayi'' was first published in 1908 by Köhler in 1908 but ''[[Catalog of Fishes]]'' refers to this as a ''[[nomen nudum]]'' and attributes the valid use of the name, with a formal [[Species description|description]], to P. Engmann in 1909. The [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] is given as [[Malacca]] which is probably an error and should be Kerala.<ref name = CoFF>{{Cof record|spid=62256|title=''Polyacanthus cupanus dayi''|access-date=19 December 2019}}</ref> The [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]] honors the [[British people|British]] [[ichthyologist]] and author of the ''Fishes of India'', [[Francis Day]] (1830–1889).<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/anabantiformes/ | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 21 October 2019 | title= Order ANABANTIFORMES: Families ANABANTIDAE, HELOSTOMATIDAE, OSPHRONEMIDAE, CHANNIDAE, NANDIDAE, BADIDAE, and PRISTOLEPIDIDAE | access-date = 18 December 2019 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}</ref>

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