GORAMY, or GOURAMY (Osphromenus olfax)  , reputed to be one of the best-flavoured freshwater fishes in the East Indian archipelago . Its original home is Java, Sumatra, Borneo and several other East Indian islands, but thence it has been transported to and acclimatized in Penang, Malacca, Mauritius and even Cayenne . Being an almost omnivorous fish and tenacious of life, Goramy . it seems to recommend itself particularly for acclimatization in other tropical countries; and specimens kept in captivity become as tame as carps . It attains the size of a large turbot . Its shape is flat and short, the body covered with large scales; the dorsal and anal fins are provided with numerous spines, and the ventral fins produced into long filaments . Like Anabas, the climbing perch, it possesses a suprabranchial accessory respiratory organ .