Reef Coral Identification: Florida Caribbean Bahamas Including Marine Plants [Plastic Comb]

Paul Humann (Author), Ned DeLoach (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1992 | ISBN-10: 1878348035 | ISBN-13: 978-1878348036

You know the fishes and can identify the reef critters, but what about the animals that actually form a coral reef? Existing in an abundance of colours and intriguing shapes, these animals are worth a closer look. 530 classic photographs of living specimens and the most current scientific classifications help identify virtually every species of stony coral, gorgonian, fire coral and black coral inhabiting the tropical western Atlantic. This new 2nd edition includes a comprehensive photo-essay of coral diseases and predation and a photo gallery on coral reproduction. If you want to know more about marine plants, this book has got them, too; an appendix with descriptions and photos of 100 species of marine plants is included. Improved flexibinding with plastic covers allows book to lie flat.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Plastic Comb: 252 pages
• Publisher: New World Pubns Inc (November 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878348035
• ISBN-13: 978-1878348036
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,049,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Guide Available, April 21, 2002

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Harold McFarland (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reef Coral Identification: Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas (Reef Set, Vol. 3) (Paperback)

This Reef Coral Identification book is THE definitive guide. In brief there is not a better guide out there. It thoroughly covers each type of coral and gives identification information as well as full color photographs. In addition to all the corals it covers other plant life likely to be encountered while snorkeling or diving. These include grasses, weeds, algae and coral diseases. With a plastic cover and the pages treated to resist water it can be taken to the beach or onto the boat without much concern about the water damaging the book. For each item the book also discusses any danger to divers that the particular coral may represent (such as fire coral).

This book can also be purchased as part of a three part set that also includes the Reef Fish Identification and Reef Creature Identification texts, each of which is equally as excellent as the Reef Coral Identification book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WIthout a doubt, the BEST identification book out there., December 5, 2001

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This review is from: Reef Coral Identification: Florida Caribbean Bahamas Including Marine Plants (Plastic Comb)

This is a fantastic book, and along with the other two books by this author you should be able to ID any marine creature you encounter!

The book lists virtually all types of corals including Algae, black corals, brain, lace, cactus, cup, boulder, fire, fleshy, etc.

Each entry has an excellent picture, the name, family, size, depth, and other information.

The pictures alone are worth the cost of the book!

This is definetely the book you want to have with you when you dive or snorkel. Buy it today, you won't be disappointed!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Almost as good as the previous!, April 15, 2001

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Johannes Ehn Hellstrand (Stockholm,Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reef Coral Identification: Florida Caribbean Bahamas Including Marine Plants (Plastic Comb)

This is the 3rd volume in the "Reef Set",Paul Humman`s incredible books on Caribbean marine life. Actually,this was the first volume I bought of them,so I now learned to know how these books were. I later received Reef Fish ID for Christmas. But this one is very beautifull too. It includes almost every coral that is likely to be encountered while diving in the Caribbean. The photos are also quite good for beeing an identification book. Commonly,really striking views of animals only come in art books like "Coral Seas" or "The Maldives" but these pictures are of almost the same quality. The Indo-Pacific corals are often very colourfull,but the Caribbean are more famous for their artistic shapes and forms (some of them looks like trees in the winter). It is not badder than the previous volumes,because this one takes up other animals. All three books are like one big book,because all of them covers different kinds of animals. So my rate of the entire reef set,including this one,is 10 out of 10 or 5 out of 5!If you do own the other volumes,do buy this one. No diver`s,fishwatcher`s or ichtyologist`s library is complete without these books. A must-have!