[quote=”Peter Finke” post=5182]We have indeed not seen Paros from the island of Pulau Lingga hitherto. It is not surprising that there are some occurring. Thinking of the past 10.000 years it was included in the big landmass of Sundaland, now being an island between western Malaysia and Sumatra, just like Bintan or Bangka.[/quote]
Very interesting, then, that a new range for this genus can apparently be documented, if this report, from 2013, is substantiated. This raises the question of whether Paros occur on the neighboring smaller islands of Pulau Sebangka and Pulau Singkep, and others, all of which would have been part of Sundaland, prior to the rise in sea level.
[quote=”Peter Finke” post=5182]Let’s see if we get more pictures. This one shows the fish not in full but in in frightened colours. The location is new to us; whether the species is too, one such picture is not enough. But many thnak to you, David, for posting it. The Japanese have played since some decades an important role in Paro aquaristics. They found pahuensis or spec. Parengean a little earlier or later than Europeans.[/quote]
It has been two years since the original post, and there does not appear to be any further update of this Paro in the blog that I can see.
To make matters more interesting, in the same series of posts, there is some reference to another Paro that the author names as a “Bintan” like paro, that does appear to resemble classic bintan form, but I cannot determine if the blog is saying this fish is the same as the first fish pictured, or if it is a separate fish that was collected from Pulau Lingga. If the author is saying it was was a different fish, also collected on Pulau Lingga, then apparently two distinct forms (one more resembling alfredi/tweediei and the other more bintan form), occur on the same island. (Google translator renders the Japanese into an almost unintelligible wording in English, so it’s difficult to make out just exactly what the author is stating – so I am not sure about this last point).
One cannot leave comments on the blog, however the author’s email link is provided and someone could try to contact him via email to ask for any further update or clarifying information. Perhaps this contact should best come from Peter or Horst Linke? who will have the most knowledge about the subject.