The
PAROSPHROMENUS PROJECT

The
PAROSPHROMENUS
PROJECT

help with id ? alfredi ? tweediei ? rubrimontis?

#9191
hallmann
Participant

This one is a shure P. tweediei “Pekan Nenas” too. It nearly looks like an nice alfredi-type. The red pigments are nearly gone and expose the base of iridescent tourquise coloured bands.

For explanation of my thesis:
A P. tweediei which has no source of carotene could lose the red colouring nearly complete, but no, P. tweediei is not identical with P. harveyi. There must be a genetic disposition too and we have shure other differences. But all the species and forms of harveyi-group are genetically near and perhaps the lack or existence of trace-elements in water or nutrition plays a important role in their appearance.
The best carotene-fed up P. alfredi doesn`t look the same as tweediei. The same should be in rubrimontis, alfredi, opallios and the cf….types.
But carotene supply explains differences in locations (different food/trace-elements), generations (different food/trace-elements) and the splitting in apparently different stocks (different food/trace-elements) and has nothing to do with genetic constant qualities.

This all doesn´t mean that the paros are not healthy, the lack of red pigments ist reversible by feeding the right food.

Martin