Trichogaster

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}

{{About||the larger gouramis from Southeast Asia|Trichopodus}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Colisa_lalia.jpg

| image_caption= Dwarf gourami (T. lalius)

| taxon = Trichogaster

| parent_authority = Bleeker, 1879{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue =2 | pages = 001–230| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}

| authority = Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801

| type_species = Trichogaster fasciata

| type_species_authority = Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801{{Cof record|genid=422|title=Trichogaster|access-date=15 December 2019}}

| synonyms =

• Colisa Cuvier, 1831
• Polyacanthus Cuvier, 1829

| synonyms_ref = {{Cof family|family=Osphronemidae|access-date=15 December 2019}}

}}

Trichogaster is a genus of gouramis native to South Asia from Pakistan to Myanmar. It is the only genus in the monotypic subfamily Trichogastrinae as set out in the 5th Edition of Fishes of the World, although that book states that there are two genera, the other being Colisa{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=393 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2019-12-15 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }} which is treated as a synonym of Trichogaster by Fishbase and the Catalog of Fishes. Fishbase also places the genus in the Luciocephalinae. Species of this genus are very popular in the aquarium trade.