[quote=”Lennart F.” post=2166]
By the way is there any topic/discussion/place trying to give an overlook about the “Blue line” types yet? Would be pretty interesting seeing the different characteristics and perhaps start an approach of grouping them… I guess there are a few fotos out there showing “Blue lines”!?
-> Oh yes I’m a human, I’m trying hard to put everything in labled boxes![/quote]
Indeed Lennart. Wouldn’t it be possible to admire and respect these wonderfull Paro’s without giving them a name?
Due to this philosophical approach, I omitted to respond to a suggestion of Peter in his interesting message about Blue Line. Helene already referred to that discussion. After having described 3 different fish all called Blue line, Peter wrote:
Apart from the fact that the mixture of fish caught in different river systems is definitely wrong, we cannot – at present – hope to reveal the “right identity” behind the so-called Blue lines. To all our knowledge all of them come from Sumatra and there is never a harveyi or a species from Kalimantan mixed between them. All we can do is to separate the different Blue lines and take them as Blue line 1, Blue line 2, and so on. As far as we know there is no well-known species behind, only (perhaps) bintan. And we can say the following: If there is at all a single species (or two) behind the label “Blue line”, all are from Jambi/Sumatra. That is for certain (at least as our present-day-knowledge is concerned).
I have put one phrase in bold characters myself. I’m still unexperienced and unable to distinguish small details when comparing different P. sp. Blue line and/or P. bintan. But if Peter took pictures of the Blue line’s he had, Helene would be able to document 3 different Blue line‘s. Perhaps it would even be better to call them different forms of P. bintan – are there any P. bintan without blue lines ?
By the way: I very liked to see your video of the fighting males Lennart.
Grtz,
S.