History Of Arowana

Under the influence of Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms some island of Sumatra and Java had reached its glory with covering the Malaysia and Majapahit Mindanao island since the 10thcentury to 14th to the return of Arab traders from Gujarat, India and brought Islam .

When people from Europe come in 16 th century, until the 17th century the Netherlands emerged was the most powerful ruler in the earth's Equator. A century ago, in 1844 two German scientists named Muller and Schlegel are interested in the beauty of the fish that they found in South America. Both give the name of the fish Osteoglossum formosum. Then in 1913 two Dutch experts Zoology Max Weber and LF de Beaufort changed its name to Scleropages formosus.
Until the discovery of this last type by scientists Kanazawa Japan in 1966, They has found many Arowana. At least four fishes have already known as the genus with one species Arapaima (Arapaima gigas), Osteoglossum with two species of Osteoglossum bicirrhosum and Osteoglossum ferreirai, then Scleropages genus with four species, called Scleropages formosus, Scleropages guntheri, Scleropaghes leichardti and Scleropages jardini. Genus is the last Clupisudis with single species Cluoisudis nilot.
In Indonesia, there are many of Super Red Arowana (Scleropages formosus). Arowana this type can be found in many rivers and lakes in Sintang, Kapuas Hulu. The rivers are the Kapuas River that store many types of Arowana. The fish lives in rivers or lakes because there are not to many rock and river flows quietly. Red arowana fish (Scleropages formosus) difficult to find in the original habitat in the Lake Sentarum, Kabupaten Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan Province.

Arowana (Scleropages formosus) is a species of freshwater fish from Southeast Asia. This fish has a length body , fin, and anus is located far behind the body.
Asian arowana type is usually silver. Asian Arowana Dragon Fish also called as the dragon of Chinese Mythology. In West Kalimantan, arowana fish are also found in Sumatra, especially in the area of Riau and Jambi, but the type is the Red tailed Arowana (Golden Red Arowana). This species is included Scleropages formosus. The Basic colors of Sumatra’s Arowana is golden yellow in the head and the tail fin and red taillights.
Type of Arowana which are also located in Indonesia is green Arowana. This fish can be found in Borneo, on the River at Melawai Mensiku. The main colors are green on the tail. However, the color green is often not visible because it is red when the fish still young. Only on the adults, green can be seen clearly visible. Green Arowana lives in the river which the water color is not too clean.
There are two types of arowana who also lived in Indonesia especially in Papua, but the population is not too many. Collectors also prefer to hunt this type of arowana in Australia because the population is still many in there.
In Australia, the population of arowana species Scleropages jardini and Scleropages leichardti are still many. The first type can be found in the River, called Jardine River and Queensland. The Characteristics of their body are have a red spot, the silver belly. And many types of Scleropages leichardti are in the Fitzroy River, Mary River, Dawson River Burnett River and Australia.
This type can be found Indonesia, also found in some small rivers at Papua. However, because the observations in Papua has not intensive, many people predict that the population of this second type of Arowana is still many but the fact is this type of arowana getting rarely.
The type of Silver Arowana and Black Arowana many found in South America, North and some rivers in Africa. Asian Arowana is a native species from the river in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia.
There are four colors are variates in:

1. Green, founded in Indonesia, Vietnam, Burma, Thailand and Malaysia

2. Gold with red tails, found in Indonesia

3. Gold, founded in Malaysia

4. Red, founded in Indonesia
Asian Arowana are listed in the list of endangered species by IUCN in 2004. The Number of species often decreased due to the high value. Arowana generally divided as the four main types of Asian Arowana (Scleropages Formosus), Australia Arowana (Scleropages Jardini / Leichardi), Arowana South America (Osteoglossum Bicirrhosum / Ferreirai) and Arwana Africa. Each collection has a unique and distinctive, but each Asian Arowana is the most expensive. While CITES (Convention on International Trade inEndangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) states to protect these animals.

By: raymond phang

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