I must thank Frank L. Pezold III, for his great work during the last two years for aqua, and especially because he made it again possible for this strict peer-reviewed scientific journal to be even more respected an appreciated by the international Ichthyologic community. Frank has committed himself for an

THE BIOLOGY OF GOBIESPatzner, R. A., J. L. Van Tassell, M. Kovačié, and B. G. Kappor, (editors). Science Publishers, Channel Islands, U.K., Enfield, New Hampshire, USA. 2011. 685 pp. Gobies are a group of charismatic fishes that live in tropical and temperate freshwater, estuarine, and fully marine habitats to a

SHORE FISHES OF EASTER ISLANDJohn E. Randall & Alfred CeaUniversity of Hawaii Press. 2011. 164 pp. cloth boundPrice: USD $35 Easter Island, a tiny remote outpost in the South Pacific, is perhaps best known for its colossal stone statues, and the controversy surrounding their origin. However, it is one of

The Banggai Cardinalfish: Natural History, Conservation and Culture of Pterapogon kauderni Alejandro A. VagelliWiley-Blackwell, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. 2011, 224 pages ISBN 978-0-470-65499-6 (Hardcover) $179.95 ISBN 978-1-1199-5036-3 (ebook) $149.99 There are three online excerpts at: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470654996.html, in addition to a brief description and table of contents of what is in

  Joseph Schieser Nelson, 1937-2011 The Man of Fishes, as many have called him, has left us and suddenly there is a gap, which no one can fill. The four editions of “Fishes of the World“ which he authored – the first in 1984 and the last one in 2006

Professor Wu Han-lin has presented to Heiko Bleher a copy of his recent book of the Chinese fishes of the suborder Gobioidei during Heiko’s visit and conferences at the Shanghai Ocean University, October 18th 2010. This book of 952 pages took more then 30 years of hard work, sampling over

Characiform fishes collected by Heiko Bleher on the road São Paulo-Corumba-Araguaia, December 2005  

Swarming, diel movements, feeding and cleaning behavior of juvenile venomous eeltail catfishes, Plotosus lineatus and P. japonicus (Siluriformes: Plotosidae)