“Sintang” or “Sentang” is a location on Sumatra in the Jambi-district and is used as a trade-name for a hitherto undecribed variant of a bintan-type licorice gouramy. Sometimes the trade speaks of “P. sintangensis” which should sound like a scientific name but it is nonsense. Look at our “other forms” pages, see the “spieces”-button.
Sentang is the most traded licorice gouramy of the last years. If you find Parosphromenus in the trade, whatever name, most are spec. Sentang. This means that this is a most productive and easy to exploit location. And many exporters (not to speak of their catchers, of course) don’t bother about names; it’s mostly either “deissneri” or “Sentang”.
But the problem is that there are several rather similar forms living in country Jambi quite near of the Sentang-area, and we guess they have been mingled already in the trade. Since we do not know anything about the genetic similarities or differences of these forms that could be either without any importance or on the contrary loaden with heavy consequences. Not always are similar-looking fish (or birds, lizards, plants etc.) identical; often the development of genetic differences has begun already. The only thing we can do is to keep Parosphromenus-fish that we have reasons to stem from different locations strictly apart!
Most aquarists who bought their licorice gouramies from the trade from 2009 onwards have spec. Sentang swimming in their tanks.