[Peter Finke]

Yes it’s an impressive list. But as licorice gouramis are concerned one should know, that
– “P. blue line” ist rightly called P. spec. blue line or better P. spec. aff. bintan “blue line” (an undescribed bintan-variant from Sumatra)
– there is not accepted name “P. sintangensis”. This is a trade name faking a scientific name without any scientific corroboration. The better trade name is P. spec. Sentang (from Sentang area on Sumatra, the most traded Parosphromenus of the last years; see Christian Hinz’ and mine new entries in our Forum), and
– “P. deissneri” is in all probability not that species (endemic from Bangka) but a bintan-variant; which one is unclear. I have never met a true deissneri in trade although most fish are sold bearing that name.
I should pay a hundred dollars if it were the real deissneri. It never was. We must be concerned about real deissneri, in nature and in our aquarium stocks. Some of the original habitats on Bangka are destroyed or polluted by tin-mine sewage. And unfortunately, our once big stock of that fine species in Europe has declined to one pair (?!) left at Helene Schoubye’s tanks …
– As P. nagyi is concerned one should know which local form is sold: the nominate form from the Kuantan area with white band in the caudal, the form from Cherating (with blue band in the caudal, the intermediate Cukai form, or the Pekan Nenasi form which has appeared during the last years in our stocks). In Europe we lost Cukai; the others are present in good numbers.