Peter A. Lewis
American Aquarium Fishes provides a wealth of previously unavailable data to any person interested in this branch of hobby. The author suggest that many of the more than seven hundred species of freshwater fishes found throughout the lakes, streams, rivers, creeks and pools of our nation may be successfully maintained and even encouraged to breed in a home aquarium of suitable size.American Aquarium Fishes cover every order of freshwater fishes found throughout the United Staes beginning with the rder Acipenseriformes containing the Sturgeons and Paddlefishes and ending with the most populated order, Perciformes, containing the diminutive darters and gobies. As each fish is described through the main text of the publication, Dr. Goldstein provides both the scientific and common name of the fish under consideration, an acurate portrayal of the species together with background and local information.
—Aquarium