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FISHES OF FRENCH GUIANA
VOLUME 12, NUMBER 4

5     Letter From The Editor by Courtney Tobler
6     Aquatic Notebook
     • A new name for the Buenos Aires Tetra
by Dr. Paul V. Loiselle
     • Rob McLure honored in latest mailed catfish description

by Courtney Tobler
     • Study finds that iridescence in Glass Catfish differs

from other fishes by Courtney Tobler

FEATURE ARTICLES
14     The Guianacara cichlids from French Guiana
by Ernst-Otto von Drachenfels
20     Laimosemion xiphidius — the Blue Striped Rivulus
by Friedrich Bitter
24     The variable forms of Corydoras amapaensis
by Ernst-Otto von Drachenfels
30     Leopold’s Tetra
by Ernst-Otto von Drachenfels
36     Reportage: What lovely spines! A look at Doradidae, the thorny catfish family
by Anja Katzschmann and Norman Behr
46     Reportage: Epiplatys, the pike-like killifishes
by Gregory J. Niedzielski
54     Reportage: Fishes in the rice fields of Vietnam
by Anton Lamboj
62     Reportage: River stories: underwater biotopes in the southern U.S.
by Roman Burkardt
70     Husbandry and breeding — The Rosy Loach
by Ute Dederer
74     Husbandry and breeding — Geophagus parnaibae: A small eartheater with unusual brood care behavior
by Uwe Werner
80     Aquatic Plants — Eleocharis hairgrasses
by Rudolf Suttner

DEPARTMENTS
88 Aquarium Calendar
90 Retail Sources
92 Species Snapshots
97 Advertiser Index
98 Underwater Eye

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