Dr Sven O. Kullander at work.
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To aquarists working with the American cichlids, Dr Kullander is highly respected for his work. Of course there will always be some disagreement between scientist or differences in point of view, as it will be among aquarist. But, since I know Dr. Kullander personally, I know he is very thorough in his work. He does not any "left hand work". Even I, have thought that the work with something I was wating for, took a long time, but again this is how he work. Everything is well done, and there is nothing for an amateur to say anything else. He like to elude error, he would regret later. So, just look at all the papers he has.
And this is only some of his major work. A Revision of the South American Cichlid Genus CICHLASOMA (Teleostei: Cichlidæ) 1983
A book that turn upside down on things we had taken for certain. For me it meant that many of my lovely "Aequidens" no longer was Aequidens, but Cichlasoma. The second book he publish was even better, Cichlid fishes of the Amazon River drainage of Peru, 1986.
The third book came in 1989 and was together with Han Nijssen. Its name was The Cichlids of Surinam, 1989. I can only recommend these books to aquarists working seriously with South American cichlids. You will be amazed by all the information you will find in these books, of course you won't find breeding behaviour and things like that. But, description of the fish, size, shape and distribution just to mention some of the information you will find. |