I have Dr. Axelrod's mini Atlas of Freshwater Aquarium Fishes. I'm not crazy about it information-wise and it's all in metric but it's great for id-ing fish and I bought it cheap at half-price books.
Freshwater Species Book?
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That's interesting. So far, everything I've looked up seems to me correct nomenclature-wise. He sure has a lot of fish named after him though.RTR said:
I bought an old copy of William T Innes' Exotic Aquarium Fishes for $1 online. It's quite outdated (1950s or so) but it has beautiful photos and illustrations, and the text is really lovely to read. Innes goes into detail about a lot of species (his section on cories is so cute), as well as topics on care, feeding, breeding, plants, building your own tank, etc. There are even pronounciation keys for all the scientific names. It's hard bound with a very pretty colour plate of harlequin rasboras in just inside. Definitely worth it!
Dr A. did a lot of very good things for this hobby, and underwrote many collectors and their expeditions. He was the practical developer of the application of air transport to ornamental fish, and of the infratructure needed to make it work. He also took as many moral and ethical and possibly legal shortcuts in the hobby as he did later in life with his philanthropy.
