Female Cambodian

[tropicalgirl2007]

Ok, so maybe I'm being a bit dumb here but,

Is the name Cambodian because of their colouring? or is it a tail type? If its because of the colouring then can they be any tail type?

Sorry for the dumb question....

 

[xweeqtx]

Cambo is their colouring

 

[Amerce]

This article explains when and how the cambodian colouration name came about

http/home.hiwaay.net/~keiper/bettastory.htm

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It was not until 1927 that the first brightly-hued, flowing-finned Siamese fighting fish arrived in the United States, according to Wolfsheimer.

These fish were in a shipment consigned to Frank Locke of San Francisco. He noted both dark bodied and lighter cream colored variations. Thinking these light-bodied specimens were a new species, he named them Betta cambodia. But it soon became evident that this particular variant was only another of the many-hued forms of Betta splendens. Dr. Hugh M. Smith, renowned author of the Fresh Water Fishes of Siam or Thailand, made this observation concerning the Cambodian bettas. He believed these light-bodied fish originated in French Indochina in about 1900. According to Smith, the Siamese referred to them as "pla kat khmer" or Cambodian biting fish.
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[tropicalgirl2007]

wow. Thanks amerce