Search results

Hi, yes, I believe Chimaira Buchhandelsgesellschaft mbH has some copies left in stock https://www.chimaira.de/the-bichir-handbook.html usually quite fast delivery too. Failing that, C.E. Fish Essentials from London, UK should have good postage rates to Germany...

I can never pick, they all stand out to me for different reasons. Depending on my mood, I have different favourites haha! Polypterus palmas, easily one of the most decorated species. Ornate spotting overlapped by bold blotches like scalene triangles, with golden speckling, green hues, and a...

Hi all, We're currently down to less than 1% of remaining copies of The Bichir Handbook from the main website. These will be gone by the month's, or perhaps week's end. I don't want anyone here missing out, especially as members from this community put forward so many great Polypteridae...

Thanks, love your P. delhezi, how's it doing now?

Don't count on it being for too long, someone recently compared me to Halley's Comet ? Too many projects happening, I miss MFK haha

Not long had surgery for a shattered my collarbone in the Summer, so been a bit slack on the advertising front haha

Love how far we've come since 2006! For certain types, there are many which are incredbily hard to find. Specimens from Lake Turkana are extremely hard to source, it has gotten easier in recent years for P. senegalus, but P. bichir from Lake Turkana still seem to sell for among the highest...

The claim they reach 36 inches is untrue, this size was copied from an old Polypterus care sheet and, as like a lot of online care websites, they umbrella Polypteridae together (you'll note, if you trace back the references of this size, it leads to a dead end). From memory, most of these care...

Hi all, Adding to the list of bichir merch, is The Bichir Handbook which comes with a free species checklist bookmark and double sided A3 poster (one side is the species size comparison chart and the other side is the Polypteriform family tree). There's currently a 15% discount running over...

The first print run sold out last year, so you would only be able to buy a second or thid print run of the first edition. No changes to the third run which I anticipate. The second edition is indeed being prepared (different cover illustration, lots of unused artwork), however this will not go...

Hi, the book was only printed in Nov 2020, I don't believe there have been any classification changes since then? We even had a review last month in the Journal of Fish Biology by Timo Moritz who did the latest revision of extant Polypteridae. We are nearly out of the second print run (which...

Hi, no the code very much does deal with pronunciations, infact it was a considerable part of what now retired ICZN commisioner Pekka Lehtinen handled, and a subject of debate with specialist of Latin language, Dr. Michael Covington. Lehtinen and the ICZN say: "The Codes are MAINLY created for...

Fantastic entries, tough decision this month!

Not dumb at all, it's a great question with a rich story behind it, and one people often get wrong! Abushir and Abshire are the names used by fishers along the Nile River for bichirs. Saint-Hilaire (who first 'discovered' them during Napoleon's conquest of Egypt), heard the fisher's names for...

Today (May 21, 2021) is Endangered Species Day, and with one-third of freshwater fishes facing extinction, the purpose of the Bichir Drawing Contest is to spotlight vulnerable taxa. With growing desertification and human-induced pressures, some polypterid populations face an uncertain future...

Submissions are starting to come through, just under 17 days to go to! Good luck everyone!

In celebration of the upcoming =AZXsGDTKXURrJuCFGlEb5E_trVbh61FDtT69uOVcXAzk9DP9zCe5dQWYMEy27WYc873gsLjhxNCyTBujofk-SGs0JTZofInTlNUE6sL_Hn_i2KeyMJtVq6JSDk3GB1Lm2fGL0xQr2RZC0vnSO2cCivGjHxygpbNtO5xTFZA1i4S6_DLQlvEcw_7_lO-PD9bEH8gH6w0xRy-XZzR5V744VX7s&__tn__=*NK-y-R']#EndangeredSpeciesDay2021 we're...

The names Abushir, Abshire and Bushir are still spoken today in Egypt, granted less often as P. bichir from Egypt are likely extinct now.

It's Buh-sheer. The name was an Arabic dialect of spiny fish which live in the Nile river (Abushir). During Napoleon's conquest of Egypt, one of his naturalist who 'discovered' them, used the local dialect Bushir and gave them the French spelling 'Bichir'. That 'ch' makes a 'sh' sound, not a...

How is everyone finding the book? Be sure to leave a review: https://thebichirhandbook.com/reviews We're no longer sold out, have a load of new books back in stock which arrived a couple of weeks ago.