Upcoming Book!
It's nearly ready! Here's the cover mockup for the Big Goby Book.
it should go to the printer later this month. This is volume one, there will be approx 3,800 spp covered in all.
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Gobioids Of The World
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3,800 species of Gobies! That is a labor of love. Who is the publisher? Now I learn that
gobies have been around for at least 30 million years. "Living gobioids are distributed worldwide and constitute one of the most species-rich vertebrate suborders, with approximately 2,200 species belonging to > 270 genera [1]. They are small, mostly benthic fishes that form a significant faunal component of reefs and other shallow marine ecosystems, and are also abundant in brackish and freshwater habitats [2]. Among the extant Gobioidei, eight families have been recognised based on morphological characteristics and molecular phylogenetics..." -
5 hours ago, Kraken de Mabini said:
Who is the publisher?
Italy Aquapress Publisher owned by Heiko Bleher who is one of the authors as well.
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Thank you!
Heiko Bleher is an amazing guy:
"Heiko Bleher was born in Frankfurt on Main, Germany. He is the fourth and last child of Ludwig Bleher and Amanda Flora Hilda Bleher née Kiel. Bleher inherited his passion for freshwater fishes and aquatic plants from his mother.[1] Amanda Flora Hilda Bleher[2] was the daughter of Adolf Kiel, who is known as the "Father of Water Plants" and a pioneer of the modern aquarium. Adolf Kiel established the world's largest plant and ornamental fish farm in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1900.[3]
At the age of 4, Bleher's mother took him to Equatorial Guinea, in West Africa, on a research expedition. Two years later, he accompanied his mother on a journey throughout Europe, collecting plants and fishes. From age seven, he and his three siblings joined their mother on her adventurous exploration trip[4][5] deep into the "green hell" of the South American jungle. During this two-year expedition, his mother discovered many new aquatic plant species, fishes and other animals.[6] At the end of 1958, Bleher's family settled permanently in Brazil and established a water-plant nursery and fish-breeding hatchery called "Osiris" in the jungle outside Rio de Janeiro. In 1962, Bleher moved to the United States and later attended the University of South Florida, studying courses in ichthyology, biology, limnology, oceanography, parasitology, combined with work at Elsberry's Fish Farm and at Gulf Fish Farm. Upon returning to Rio de Janeiro in 1964, Bleher established his own export company, "Aquarium Rio", and continued his research and collecting throughout Brazil.
In 1964, Bleher introduced the Hemigrammus bleheri (the brilliant rummy-head tetra) to the aquarium hobby.[7][8] It was the first species to be named after him. Bleher contributed to the rainbowfish species community by introducing Melanotaenia boesemani[9] and many of the other almost 100 species of rainbowfish.[10][11][12] In 1970, Bleher was the first to collect live Pterophyllum altum [a.k.a. Orinoco angelfish] from Venezuela."
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I read on twitter that it will be a three volumes collection. A must have for macro addicted
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Helen Larson is my go-to guru for any weird and wonderful sandgobies I can't identify and this will be a must-have book series for me. They were struggling with the type-setter so it is great to see that at least volume 1 is close to release.
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9 hours ago, Glasseye Snapper said:
Helen Larson is my go-to guru for any weird and wonderful sandgobies I can't identify and this will be a must-have book series for me. They were struggling with the type-setter so it is great to see that at least volume 1 is close to release.
This is her announcement on Twitter I copied for my post
