This Asian fresh water river carp can be discovered in southern Thailand, east to Vietnam and south to Indonesia.

Certainly, the type locality is Java, in Indonesia and the holotype is lodged at Bogor Zoology Museum.

[4] Since then, in 2017, Ng Chee Kiat et al. have published a paper [5] on the fish diversity of Sabah state in Malaysian Borneo.

The only way that the validity of Tor douronensis can be moved forward is by a concerted study in the river basin of the type locality.

[9] Because of its rarity in Indonesia, the Indonesian Institute of Sciences considering to propose to CITES to give it the status as protected endangered species.

In the year of 1999, Queen Sirikit proceeded to the Bang Lang Dam and released the fish back to nature.