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New book on Mystus leucophasis
Posted: 05 May 2025, 19:50
by bekateen
Malviya, M.M.K., 2025. Fish Biology of Macrones Leucophasis. Booksclinic Publishing.
https://books.google.com/books?id=WjJNEQAAQBAJ
Re: New book on Mystus leucophasis
Posted: 06 May 2025, 01:47
by 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.
Re: New book on Mystus leucophasis
Posted: 06 May 2025, 05:28
by 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
Re: New book on Mystus leucophasis
Posted: 06 May 2025, 12:41
by bathyclarias
Interesting that they selected an illustration of Ameiurus melas for the cover.
Re: New book on Mystus leucophasis
Posted: 06 May 2025, 17:48
by bekateen
bathyclarias wrote: 06 May 2025, 12:41
Interesting that they selected an illustration of Ameiurus melas for the cover.
Already two strikes against it so far.
Cheers,
Eric
Re: New book on Mystus leucophasis
Posted: 07 May 2025, 01:06
by 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.
Re: New book on Mystus leucophasis
Posted: 07 May 2025, 01:09
by bekateen
Speak easy?
