diff --git a/quapy/data/datasets.py b/quapy/data/datasets.py
index 3cc8f18..72ee924 100644
--- a/quapy/data/datasets.py
+++ b/quapy/data/datasets.py
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ def fetch_UCIBinaryLabelledCollection(dataset_name, data_home=None, verbose=Fals
     return data
 
 
-def fetch_UCIMulticlassDataset(dataset_name, data_home=None, test_split=0.3, verbose=False) -> Dataset:
+def fetch_UCIMulticlassDataset(dataset_name, data_home=None, test_split=0.3, verbose=False, min_ipc=100) -> Dataset:
     """
     Loads a UCI multiclass dataset as an instance of :class:`quapy.data.base.Dataset`. 
 
@@ -615,9 +615,11 @@ def fetch_UCIMulticlassDataset(dataset_name, data_home=None, test_split=0.3, ver
         ~/quay_data/ directory)
     :param test_split: proportion of documents to be included in the test set. The rest conforms the training set
     :param verbose: set to True (default is False) to get information (stats) about the dataset
+    :param min_ipc: minimum number of istances per class. Classes with less instances than min_ipc are discarded 
+        (deafult is 100)
     :return: a :class:`quapy.data.base.Dataset` instance
     """
-    data = fetch_UCIMulticlassLabelledCollection(dataset_name, data_home, verbose)
+    data = fetch_UCIMulticlassLabelledCollection(dataset_name, data_home, verbose, min_ipc)
     return Dataset(*data.split_stratified(1 - test_split, random_state=0))