New book on Mystus leucophasis

[bekateen]

Malviya, M.M.K., 2025. Fish Biology of Macrones Leucophasis. Booksclinic Publishing.

https://books.google.com/books?id=WjJNEQAAQBAJ

Mystus leucophasis

[Silurus]

Posting about this book is like posting about the crappy self-published books on corydoradines one finds for sale in Amazon or posting about a paper published in a predatory journal.

[bekateen]

There certainly are many low quality self-published books, but there are also good ones. I don't know this book, nor its author, so I can't judge the quality or originality of any information in the book, beyond the obvious failure of the author to use the valid taxonomic name.

I appreciate your cautionary perspective.

Cheers, Eric

[bathyclarias]

Interesting that they selected an illustration of Ameiurus melas for the cover.

[bekateen]

Interesting that they selected an illustration of Ameiurus melas for the cover.

Already two strikes against it so far.

Cheers,
Eric

[Silurus]

If you look at the photo on page 5 of the book, the species being studied isn't even M. leucophasis, but either M. cavasius or M. bleekeri.

Three strikes. I am moving this out of the Science News forum.

[bekateen]

Speak easy?