First comprehensive treatise of known South American dwarf cichlids until 1998. Contains 1400 photographs, 150 drawings, key for identification, results of research on sex determination, distribution, ecology, behaviour, maintenance and breeding in captivity, descriptions of several species of the genera Apistogramma, Apistogrammoides, Biotoecus, Crenicara, Crenicichla, Dicrossus, Laetacara,
... [Show full abstract] Mazarunia, Mikrogeophagus, Nannacra, Taeniacara, Teleocichla, and an extended bibliography. 1st English language edition.