In 1974 Peter Tsang told Heiko Bleher to go and fidn this otherwise unknown fish from 1918 and to introduce it into the aquarium hobby. Bleher found them and gave them to Peter French in Memmingen who bred them. Mr. Friedrich Bielefeld got them from him and took them to the DDR where Peter Guennel was the first to breed them there.

The photographs from Heiko are from there he caught them.

Sawbwa resplendens

resplendens, Sawbwa Annandale [N.] 1918:48, Pls. 2 (fig. 3), 4 (fig. 15) [Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 14; ref. 127] Inlé Lake, Southern Shan States, Myanmar. Syntypes: ZSI F9413/1 (13), F9414/1 (8). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 198:116 [ref. 20743]. See Das 2003:361 [ref. 27706]. •Valid as Sawbwa resplendens Annandale 1918 -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:296 [ref. 20764], Doi 1997:13 [ref. 22832], Kottelat 2013:159 [ref. 32989], Kano et al. 2016:9 [ref. 34887]). Current status: Valid as Sawbwa resplendens Annandale 1918. Cyprinidae: Cyprininae. Distribution: Myanmar. Habitat: freshwater.