| View Larger Image | Reef Fish Identification - Tropical Pacific | Paperbackby Gerald Allen (Author), Roger Steene (Author), Paul Humann (Author), Ned DeLoach (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | New World Publications | | Edition: | illustrated editionth Edition | | Page Count: | 457 Pages | | Publication Date: | October 01, 2003 | | Sales Rank: | 18,098th |
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Product Description
Finally, a comprehensive fish identification guide covering the fish-rich reefs of the Pacific. It contains 2,500 underwater photographs of 2,000 species from four of the best marine life authors/photographers in the business. Their collaboration makes it possible for underwater naturalists to identify fishes from Thailand to Tahiti with a single, compact, easy-to-use, no-nonsense reference. 108 fish families are presented in one of 20 Identification groups based on a family's related visual or behavioural characteristics, such as Large Oval / Colourful or Sand/Burrow Dwellers. Likewise, every effort has been made to group similar appearing species together. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 18 reviews)
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Awesome Reference by D. Howarth  5 Stars
November 13, 2009
All of these Fish ID references are great. I hope that one day soon the book is converted to CD so I can take is with me on my dive trips.
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GREAT RESOURCE BUT COULD USE UPGRADES by Karl Wozniak (Manila)  4 Stars
November 13, 2009
A MUST HAVE FOR EVERY DIVER. HOWEVER SOME OF THE PICTURES ARE RATHER POOR QUALITY AND COULD USE AN UPGRADE. THE BOOK IS A MONEMENTAL ACHIEVMENT BY THE AUTHORS
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What was that?? by Jon R. Early 5 Stars
June 27, 2009
This is a book every diver or anyone interested in Marine Life needs. When you see it swim by,and the camera jams... then you may have a chance to enter the correct name in your log book... excellent to have on a dive in the Pacific
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Great book! by Adele Wong (N Carolina, USA) 5 Stars
March 29, 2009
Very comprehensive, just what i wanted to identify the marine photos i taken. Now, i need one more book on nudibranches too.
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My first choice for IDing fish by Ehkzu (Palo Alto, CA United States) 4 Stars
January 04, 2009
I just came back from a dive trip to Bali and spent a week, off and on, IDing the fish I'd photographed. This book turned out to be the most useful. It includes photos of a lot of color/sex/age variations that proved invaluable. This book also puts little arrows in many pics to point out features that help differentiate a fish from otherwise similar ones--I found that to be very useful.
However, though it's the best book for tropical Pacific fish IDing, I did find that I needed to cross-reference it with several others in ambiguous cases (and many cases were ambiguous!)--particularly one Aussie book that uses paintings instead of photos: "Marine Fishes of South-East Asia" by Gerry Allen (though this book often uses different common names, so you'll have to go by scientific names in many cases to correlate it with American texts). Sometimes a painting can highlight features a particular photo won't show clearly. And this book shows some interesting fish that aren't strictly coral reef fish, which nevertheless you might see on a trip (think mahi-mahi, flying fish etc.).
Lastly, you should also have a general underwater guide, for 3 reasons: (1) this is what you should actually bring with you on a trip, leaving larger, heavier, more specialized books like the one being reviewed here at home (especially with current luggage weight restrictions). (2) A general guide, such as "Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Guide" by Dr. Gerald R. Allen & Roger Steene, also has everything from corals to sea snakes. (3) Any given fish you see is probably a common one; a general guide will only show common fish. So you'll generally want to look here first.
The book I'm reviewing here is organized for identification rather than scientifically. It uses 20 ID groups, such as "disk-shaped/colorful" and "odd-shaped bottom dwellers." This is appropriate since it's a fish ID book.
If you dive in Pacific/Asian waters--and that's the best diving on Earth in my experience--and you'd really like to know what the heck you saw--get this book.
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