The
PAROSPHROMENUS PROJECT

The
PAROSPHROMENUS
PROJECT

New Paros for my tank

#4738
Peter Finke
Participant

Yes, taken the minor quality of those pictures for granted they seem to be identical with the new form at first called sp. cf. filamentosus, now officially according to the place where it was found P. sp. Ampah. This is a place noth of Banjamarsin and south of Murateweh. We are still unsure whether it is a subspecies of filamentosus (that borders the region in the south) or a new proper species.
The males have a tail pattern somewhat similar to filamentosus but there are (nearly) no filaments; the females have a rounded caudal. The whole colouring has with the exception of the clear black of the fin’s edges a reduced tendency to “black and white”; some brown colours are developing in some animals.
The first spawnings have been observed by H. Linke and M. Hallmann.