Author: Allen & Hadiaty, 2014
Comments: Found in a small mountain lake, Lake Furnusu.  Most of its paratypes occurred adjacent to a rocky shore among aquatic vegetation and submerged <i>Pandanus roots.  Other fishes found in the lake are provisionally identified as <i>Neosilurus brevidorsalis (Plotosidae), <i>Craterocephalus sp. (Atherinidae), <i>Melanotaenia mairasi (Melanotaeniidae) , and <i>Oxyeleotris nullipora Eleotridae (Ref. 95614).