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.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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One of the best out there!,
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This review is from: Reef Fish Identification - Tropical Pacific (Paperback)
This book revolutionised fish ID in the tropical South Pacific when it first came out. We live and work in Fiji in the marine environment and have 4 of these on our shelf (for use of staff in the field as well as office)
The only drawback we find is the bizarre choice of common names. There are already a plethora of other books out there with common names fairly well established in Fiji by Lieske&Meyers. Seems to follow more of an Australian theme for these than the prevous Paul Humman books which use the American common names. But overal a MUST for any diver who visits the Tropical Pacific. If you use it in conjunction with Lieske&Meyers then if you don;t find the fish you're looking at, prepare to be published!
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Essential reef guide for the Asian Pacific region.,
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This review is from: Reef Fish Identification - Tropical Pacific (Paperback)
This is an outstanding fish ID manual for the Pacific and Indian ocean region. It beats out others books of a similar nature with the number of photos (6 on every page for a total of over 2,500 pics) and the helpful identification notes below each pic along with the average size of the fish, localised habitat(if any)and pictures of the juvenile fish alongside the adult as well distinguishing feature between male and female forms and arrows pointing to distinguishing marks between similar fish of the same species. Fish are easily found from a photo you took or memory, as it places them into 20 identification groups according to body shape. The pictures are not quite the same quality as The Asia Pacific Reef Guide by Helmut Debelius but they are good enough. Unlike most books of this type it is fish specific so does not include any pics of molluscs, crustaceans, cephalopods, nudibranches, corals or other denizens of the ocean. You have to go to his Reef Creatures ID book for that in the excellent 3 volume Reef Set. Great book, highly recommended.
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Excellent reference for identification of my species in Pacific area,
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Easy to use and identify your photographs, particularly for an experienced diver used to identifying many types of fishes
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Trying to identify a specific fish from the more than 2,000 tropical Pacific species included in this book can be a perplexing task. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sheltered coastal reefs, steep outer reef slopes, upper tail base, dark scale margins, ist dorsal fin, silty coastal reefs, seaward reefs, black scale margins, brown body bars, orange eye bar, seaward reef slopes, large ocellated spot, pectoral fin base, gray with white underside, black undercolor, white rear body, usually form groups, reef recesses, short nasal barbels, form loose groups, rear dorsal fin, brown undercolor, darkish bars, yellow ventral fins, alpheid shrimp Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Asian Pacific, French Polynesia, Red Sea, West Pacific, Great Barrier Reef, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Andaman Sea, Indian Ocean, Coral Sea, Lord Howe, Malaysian Peninsula, Sri Lanka, Coral Breams, East Indo-Pacific, China Sea, Arabian Gulf, East Africa, Southwestern Pacific, Milne Bay, New Zealand, Irian Jaya, New Britain, Java Sea, Pacific Rim New!
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Trying to identify a specific fish from the more than 2,000 tropical Pacific species included in this book can be a perplexing task. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sheltered coastal reefs, steep outer reef slopes, upper tail base, dark scale margins, ist dorsal fin, silty coastal reefs, seaward reefs, black scale margins, brown body bars, orange eye bar, seaward reef slopes, large ocellated spot, pectoral fin base, gray with white underside, black undercolor, white rear body, usually form groups, reef recesses, short nasal barbels, form loose groups, rear dorsal fin, brown undercolor, darkish bars, yellow ventral fins, alpheid shrimp Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Asian Pacific, French Polynesia, Red Sea, West Pacific, Great Barrier Reef, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Andaman Sea, Indian Ocean, Coral Sea, Lord Howe, Malaysian Peninsula, Sri Lanka, Coral Breams, East Indo-Pacific, China Sea, Arabian Gulf, East Africa, Southwestern Pacific, Milne Bay, New Zealand, Irian Jaya, New Britain, Java Sea, Pacific Rim New!
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- Sri Lanka (Countries of the World (Gareth Stevens)) by Krishnan Guruswamy on 7 pages
- The Indian Ocean (New True Books) by Susan Heinrichs Gray on 4 pages
- New Britain by Wilson on page 304, page 306, and page 339
- Southwest Pacific (Artisans Around the World) by Sharon Franklin on page 50
- Diving Guide to Underwater Florida (10th Edition) by Ned DeLoach in Front Matter
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