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Skin divers, here is the capital 'D' Definitive guide to all the fishes you're ever apt to see on reefs down to 60 meters. -- John Balzar, Los Angeles Times
An excellent field guide to coral reef fishes anywhere in the world.... [It] fills a niche for amateur and professional visitors to reefs, combining in one compact volume what has previously required several, usually expensive, works. -- "Naturalist
Scuba divers, naturalists, and anyone fascinated with the wonder of coral reef fishes will welcome this book with great enthusiasm. -- "Wildlife Activist
An excellent and handy reference source and would be an asset to any diver's library. -- Doug Pemberton, Diver Magazine
An excellent field guide to coral reef fishes anywhere in the world.... [It] fills a niche for amateur and professional visitors to reefs, combining in one compact volume what has previously required several, usually expensive, works. -- "Naturalist
Scuba divers, naturalists, and anyone fascinated with the wonder of coral reef fishes will welcome this book with great enthusiasm. -- "Wildlife Activist
An excellent and handy reference source and would be an asset to any diver's library. -- Doug Pemberton, Diver Magazine
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Expanded and updated to include an additional 44 species, this is a handy guide to those fishes that are likely to be observed by anybody visiting or diving on the coral reefs of the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific to a depth of sixty meters. Accessible to amateur marine life enthusiasts, this book is the first comprehensive guide of its kind. It enables the reader to quickly identify 2,118 species of fish and includes over 2,500 color illustrations depicting the major forms of each species--male, female, immature, or geographical varieties. The text proceeds according to region, depicting each species and its varieties, and offering information on its geographic range and where on the coral reef itself the fish may be found. Important identification characteristics are highlighted on every color plate.
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This review is from: Coral Reef Fishes: Indo-Pacific and Caribbean (Paperback)
Awesome field guide for all different species of reef fishes in the carribbean and indo-pacific region. I definately recommend this book to anyone interested in doing some reef fish diving.
5.0 out of 5 stars
a little treasure,
By Cristian Magnani (Cesenatico, Italy) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Coral Reef Fishes: Indo-Pacific and Caribbean (Paperback)
this one is a real must. if I had to choose a single fish ID book to bring along in a dive trip, this handy book would be the one. it is probably more usefull for indo-pacific fishes but also atlantic/caribbean fishes part is pretty good. i guess it is the most complete book on fish identification i ever bought.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (7 customer reviews) 13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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THE field guide to bring on a scuba trip,
By Klaus Stiefel - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Coral Reef Fishes: Indo-Pacific and Caribbean (Paperback)
An amazingly well done flied guide useful for even advanced fish enthusiasts and scuba divers. I have used this book on dive trips to the Egyptian red sea, the sea of Cortez in Mexico and to Cuba, as well as while walking trough several aquariums in the US, and I have hardly ever failed to find a tropical fish species I observed in this book. The illustrations are well done and include juveniles, sex differences and regional color variants. In addition to the geographic range of a species, the likely occurrence on the reef (lagoon, outward reef, sand ...), the depth ranges and information about fish behavior are indicated. I have found this additional information extremely useful, especially when trying to identify one of several similar species.The book is divided into a Indopacific and a Carribean part, and in addition to the species descriptions there is a short general introduction to corral reefs and fish biology. 16 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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a little treasure,
By Cristian Magnani - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Coral Reef Fishes: Indo-Pacific and Caribbean (Paperback)
this one is a real must. if I had to choose a single fish ID book to bring along in a dive trip, this handy book would be the one. it is probably more usefull for indo-pacific fishes but also atlantic/caribbean fishes part is pretty good. i guess it is the most complete book on fish identification i ever bought.
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Illustrations different from reality,
By Boscain Pier Giorgio - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Coral Reef Fishes: Indo-Pacific and Caribbean (Paperback)
This guide has the merit to include a really big number of reef fishes species, but I discovered that many fishes have different colors in the field, often too much different than in the illustrations of the book ... The guide can be valid when you can take pictures in water and then, calmly at home, you can looking for features highlighted in the book, often little evident in field.
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