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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Works Cited

- - - -. "Tropheus Genetics." Tropical Fish Hobbyist 444: 170.

Axelrod, Dr. Herbert. "Should the Importation of Aquarium Fishes be Controlled?." Tropical Fish Hobbyist 459: 195-197.

Goulding, Michael. AMAZON The Flooded Forest. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, 1990.

Harper, Rodney. "Captive Care and Maintenance of the Violet Goby, Gobioides broussonetti." Tropical Fish Hobbyist 473: 126-132.

McGinnis, Samuel. Freshwater Fishes of California. Berkley: Unviversity of California Press, 1984.

Orr, D. W. Earth In Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect. Washington DC: Island Press, 1994.

Rosler, Hans-Jurgen. "A Pocket-sized 'Pike.'" Tropical Fish Hobbyist 460: 110-114.

Skelton, Paul. A Complete Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Southern Africa. Harare: Tutorial Press, 1993.

Suggested Reading

Amano, Takashi. Nature Aquarium World. Neptune City: T. F. H. Publications, 1993.

Andrews, C. A Fishkeeper's Guide to Fish Breeding. London: Salamander Books, Ltd., 1986.

Axelrodi, Herbert and Burgess, Warren. Dr. Axelrod's Atlas of Freshwater Aquarium Fishes.Neptune City: T. F. H. Publications, 1991.

Crow, Richard and Keeley, Dave. A practical guide to Tropical Aquarium Fish. Surrey: Colour Library Books Ltd., 1992.

Hellner, Steffen. Killifish. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1990.

James, Barry. A Fishkeeper's Guide to Aquarium Plants. London: Salamander Books, Ltd., 1986

Karl, Burkard. Aquarium Fish. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1990.

Leibel, Wanye S. A Fishkeeper's Guide to South American Cichlids. Tetra Press: Blacksburg, 1993

Mills, Dick. A Fishkeeper's Guide to Community Fishes. London: Salamander Books, Ltd., 1984.

Mills, Dick. You and Your Aquarium. New York: Alfred Knopf Inc., 1986.

Mills, D., Sands, D., and Scott, P. A Popular Guide to Tropical Aquarium Fishes. Durban: Bok Books International, 1988.

Mills, Dick and Vevers, Gwynne. The Tetra Encyclopedia of Tropical Freshwater Fishes. Morris Plains: Tetra Press, 1989.

Moyle, Peter B., Fish: An Enthusiast's Guide. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Pinter, Helmut. Labyrinth Fish. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1986.

Quarles, Jim E. Discus. . .as a hobby. Neptune City: T. F. H. Publications, 1994.

Riehl, R. and Baensch, Hans. Aquarium Atlas. Melle: Baensch Publishing, 1991.

Riehl, R. and Baensch, Hans. Aquarium Atlas. Vol 2. Melle: Baensch Publishing, 1993.

Sakuri, A., Sakamoto, Y., and Mori, F. Aquarium Fish of the World. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993.

Sands, David. A Fishkeeper's Guide to Central American Cichlids. London: Salamander Books, Ltd., 1986.

Sands, David. A Fishkeeper's Guide to African and Asian Catfishes. London: Salamander Books, Ltd., 1986.

Sands, David. A Fishkeeper's Guide to South American Catfish. Morris Plains: Salamander Books Ltd., 1988.

Scheurmann, Ines. The New Aquarium Hanbook. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1986.

Scheurmann, Ines. Aquariu m Fish Breeding. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1990.

Schliewen, Ulrich. Aquarium Fish. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1992.

Scott, Peter W. A Fishkeeper's Guide to Livebearing Fishes. London: Salamander Books, Ltd., 1987.

Scott, Peter W. The Complete Aquarium. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1991.

Simon and Schuster. Simon and Schuster's Guide to Freshwater and Marine Aquarium Fishes. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc., 1977.

Stadelmann, Peter. Tropical Fish. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1991.

Sweeny, Mary. The Proper Care of Malawi Cichlids. Neptune City: T. F. H. Publications, 1993.

Vevers, Gwynne. The Simon and Schuster Pocket Guide to Aquarium Fishes. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc., 1987.

Ward, Brian. Aquarium Fish Survival Manual. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1985.

Wilson, Edward O. The Diversity of Life. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.

Zurlo, Georg. Cichlids. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1991.

Magazines

Aquarium Fish Magazine.

P. O. Box 6050

Mission Viejo, CA 92690

Aquarium USA

3 Burroughs

Irvine, CA 92718

Freshwater and Marine Aquarium

144 West Sierra Madre Boulevard

Sierra Madre, CA 91024

Practical Fishkeeping Magazine

rri, Box 200 D

Jonesburg, MO 63351

Tropical Fish Hobbyist

One TFH Plaza

Third and Union Avenues

Neptune City, NJ 07753

Fish Societies

American Cichlid Association

P. O. Box 32130

Raleigh, NC 27622

American Killifish Association

903 Merrifield Place

Mishawaka, IN 46544

American Livebearer Association

50 North Second Street

St. Clair, PA 17970

British Discus Association

P. O. Box 9168

Canton, OH 44711-9168

Catfish Association of North America

Box 45

Rt. 104A

Sterling, NY 13156

International Fancy Guppy Association

2312 Pestalozzi

St. Loius, MO 63118

North American Discus Society

P. O. Box 5145

Lakeland, FL 33807

North American Fish Breeders Guild

4731 Lake Avenue

Rochester, NY 14612

Recent news

New Yangtze River dam could doom more endangered species

(06/22/2009) Eight Chinese environmentalists and scientists have composed a letter warning that a new dam under consideration for the Yangtze River could lead to the extinction of several endangered species. The letter contends that Xiaonanhia Dam, which would be 30 kilometers upstream from the city of Chongqing, will negatively impact the river’s only fish reserve. Spanning 400 kilometers in the upper Yangtze, the reserve is home to 180 fish species, including the Endangered Chinese sturgeon, and the Critically Endangered Chinese paddlefish, as well as the finless porpoise.

Fish take less than a decade to evolve

(06/22/2009) Evolution is often thought of being a slow-process, taking thousands, if not millions, of years. However a new study in The American Naturalist found that Trinidadian guppies underwent evolution in just eight years, or thirty generations. Less than a decade ago Swanne Gordon, a graduate student at UC Riverside, and her team introduced Trinidadian guppies into the Damier River in the Caribbean island of Trinidad. They placed the guppies above a waterfall to allow them to flourish in a largely predator-free environment.

Madfish?: scientist warns that farmed fish could be a source of mad cow disease

(06/17/2009) In a paper that shows just how strange our modern world has become, Robert P. Friedland, neurologist from the University of Louisville, warns that farmed fish could be at risk of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, or mad cow disease.

New report predicts dire consequences for every U.S. region from global warming

(06/17/2009) Government officials and scientists released a 196 page report detailing the impact of global warming on the U.S. yesterday. The study, commissioned in 2007 during the Bush Administration, found that every region of the U.S. faces large-scale consequences due to climate change, including higher temperatures, increased droughts, heavier rainfall, more severe weather, water shortages, rising sea levels, ecosystem stresses, loss of biodiversity, and economic impacts.

Will jellyfish take over the world?

(06/16/2009) It could be a plot of a (bad) science-fiction film: a man-made disaster creates spawns of millions upon millions of jellyfish which rapidly take over the ocean. Humans, starving for mahi-mahi and Chilean seabass, turn to jellyfish, which becomes the new tuna (after the tuna fishery has collapsed, of course). Fish sticks become jelly-sticks, and fish-and-chips becomes jelly-and-chips. The sci-fi film could end with the ominous image of a jellyfish evolving terrestrial limbs and pulling itself onto land—readying itself for a new conquest.

Marine scientist calls for abstaining from seafood to save oceans

(06/08/2009) In April marine scientist Jennifer Jacquet made the case on her blog Guilty Planet that people should abstain from eating seafood to help save life in the ocean. With fish populations collapsing worldwide and scientists sounding warnings that ocean ecosystems—as edible resources—have only decades left, it is perhaps surprising that Jacquet’s call to abstain from consuming seafood is a lone voice in the wilderness, but thus far few have called for seafood lovers to abstain.

Copyright Rhett Butler 1994-2009

The copy for fish.mongabay.com was written in 1994-1995. Therefore some information such as scientific names may be out of date. For this, I apologize. Feel free to send corrections to me.