Source: QLD Newsletter, Volume 10 No. 5, September 1994, page 4. Author: G.R. Allen, TFH Publications Inc, 1989, 200pp. Reviewer: Bruce Hansen. View original scan (PDF)

This was the most comprehensive volume on the freshwater fishes of the whole continent of Australia since the Blue Book of Merrick and Schmida. It represents ten years of personal effort by the author. Each family has an introduction, a key to species and their individual species description including a distribution map. Each species is covered under Diagnosis, Colouration, Distribution and Remarks.

The numerous colour plates depict a wide range of habitats and locality information as well as the fishes themselves. The fish shots are a mixed bag varying from the excellent aquarium work of Gunther Schmida to stark, obviously dead specimens.