Pims

Pimelodidae, Heptapteridae and
Pseudopimelodidae Catfishes

2nd completely revised edition
many new species
more than 80 species in total
English language only
Hardcover
detailed species part

After the success of the first edition of the book Pims in 2021, ‘Banjos, Dorads and Woodcats’ in 2022 and ‘Bagrids, Hillstream, and other Catfishes of Asia’ in 2024, Steven Grant returns to where it all began.

Pims sold out quickly and there were many calls for a re-release. Pims will not just be a reprint, but a revised and expanded edition. It will give an overview of the families, genera and species of the superfamily Pimelodoidea.

Steven focuses on the best known catfish, but also describes and shows many rarer species and some of their habitats. The book gives an overview of each of the families, genera and species and describes how they are identified, their ecology, etymology, size and how to keep and even breed some of them in the aquarium.

If you didn’t receive the first issue, don’t miss it this time! But even if you have already bought the first edition, this revised and expanded edition may be of great interest to you.

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The Author

Steven Grant is a British aquarist and amateur ichthyologist specializing in catfish and loach.

He has been on expeditions to Peru and Bolivia where he collected (and ate) catfish. This allowed him to see firsthand the biotopes in which they live and the other species in which they are found. He has also written numerous articles for aquarium magazines and the Catfish Study Group Journal, of which he is now editor. He is a speaker at many world meetings.

Steven has described four species of Corydoradinae, and there is also a Hoplisoma named after him. He described a genus of loaches and three genera of false catfish and also a L-Number. He has also rediscovered the lost type specimens of numerous catfish species and written about the identification of old and forgotten scientific names.

He also runs the Facebook group “Catfishes of the World”, which is an online portal for aquarists and ichthyologists.