NEW JAPANESE APISTO BOOK

[Marco "Túlio" Lacerda <marcolacerda@ax.apc.org>]

Has anybody already seen the new Japanese book "South American 
Cichlids, Tropical Fish Collection 6, Pisces Publ."?

I've just got a copy, and can say the photos are superb.
This book also has photos of many new or undescribed species that 
other books don't have, like for example:

- - Apisto "Rio Miua" (pages 40-41) [crazy fish, looks like a mixture of 
paucisquamis/mendezi/pertensi, with rounded tail!]
- - Apisto trifasciata maciliensis (page 113 bottom) [the real species, 
not misidentified like in Bork & Mayland's book]
- - Apisto sp. "Rio Mamoré" (pages 114-115) [same fish misidentified as 
A. trifasciata maciliensis in Bork & Mayland's book]
- - Apisto sp. "Rondonia" (page 122 bottom) [same fish misidentified as 
A. pulchra in Bork & Mayland's book]; this fish is named "Erdfresser" 
in Germany (Koslowiski, in a recent issue of DATZ)
- - Apisto sp. "Amapa I" and "Amapa II" (page 123)
- - Apisto sp. "Arua" (page 125, top) [new undescribed fish from A. 
cacatuoides group]
- - Apisto sp. "Alenquer" (page 121 top)
- - Apisto juruensis, and aff. juruensis [respectively, from Brazil 
(Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre) and Peru (Pucallpa)
- - Apisto agassizii, many different populations and domestic strains 
(pages 29-33): "super red" (page 29), "Rio Trombetas" (page 30, top), 
"Tefe" (page 30, bottom), "Tefe - red" (page 31, top), "Purus" (page 
31, bottom), "Rio Madeira" (page 32, top), "Alenquer" (page 32, 
bottom), "Tefe Macucuari" (page 33, top), Santarem (page 33, center) 
and "Obidos" (page 33, bottom)
- - Apisto bitaeniata, different populations/forms: "Lake January" (page 
45, top), "Tefe Menerua" (page 46, top), "Tefe" (page 46, bottom), 
"blue type" (page 47, top), "red type" (page 47, center; also page 47 
bottom);

and many other dwarf cichlids rarely seen in other books.
I've heard that they are planning a German version of this book, but 
unfortunately didn't hear anything about an English version.
I believe it would be worthy.

Best regards, Marco.