There are now – again – some more new information regarding this particular species.
I was contacted by Martin Hallmann, who told me that he believes this particular species is very much like the fish he once had, – which was P.cf. alfredi ‘Kota Tinggi’. Martin also send me some photos of the fish he had some years ago, – and I have to say the resemblance is very striking.
Martin wrote some thoughts regarding why he consider this identification to be more right than p.tweediei, – and he also gave me permission to explain this in forum (together with the photos) he send, – but I simply have to admit, that my understanding of the german is not good enough – as well as my understanding of the different problems around identification of species, so I am afraid of saying too much about this, – I might get it wrong. I have uploaded two of Martins photos in the ‘other forms menu’ under sp.alfredi Kota Tinggi.
I know from Peter, that there still could be some questions which could be asked regarding whether this is p.tweediei or p. alfredi and its perhaps not just the question of which is more right or not, – but perhaps also a question of how one looks at the whole question of identification.
For me its just good to hear the different opinions, I can certainly see, that it makes sense to see this fish as P.cf.alfredi.
The next problem in this is to really decide what to do, – and how to go on about it in Census. At the moment I report the fish by the name it had from the shop, and keep it as such in order not to loose ‘track’ of it. But I also spoke to Peter about that it cannot be right to continue to report a species by an obvious ‘wrong’ identification.
We’ll see. I will let you know what the next development is. For me, its mainly a proces of learning through all this, – the fish is still beautiful no matter what it is, – and it doesnt change anything much whether its one or the other, – but I have learned a lot through this fish about the difficulties around the species tweediei, rubrimontis, alfredi 🙂 …