Appears to beendemicto the lower Kapuasriver basinin the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan (Kalimantan Barat), Borneo.
Type locality is given as ‘Sanggau area, Kapuas basin, Kalimantan Barat, Borneo’ although the fish themselves were from the aquarium trade.
Separate populations were collected from the Sekayan and Melawi rivers (both Kapuas tributaries) close to the townships of Sanggau and Nanga Pinoh, respectively.
