Comprehensive identification guide including seaweed, corals, crustaceans, fish, dolphins, etc.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #173342 in Books
• Published on: 1994-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 378 pages

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Customer Reviews

The book for fish ID by recreational divers
This book is trully all the recreational diver will ever need to ID all reef fish, inverts and corals. It is also useful to people doing surveys, especially students and people working on basic transects. The photography and descriptions are excellent and comprehensive for all but the Carribean. Buy it. I have.

Comprehensive visual guide from seaweeds to dolphins
This paperback book provides a quick & easy identification of commonly encountered coral reef organisms (by 1800 colour photographs) from seaweeds to dolphins in 25 biological classification sections. It is very compact book but provides in-depth coverage that your average layperson (such as myself) finds easy to use and fascinating to read.

Very outdated
I bought this book a long time ago, and while I still find it occasionally useful, I must also add it is quite superficial - granted, several Indo-Pacific species are illustrated, but the accompanying texts are minimal, severely outdated or simply non-existent. Most images are also quite disappointing. To put it simply, it has been superseded by several more recent titles devoted to the same area. Divers, underwater photographers and reef aquarium keepers should consider instead the more recent, complete, updated and infinitely better illustrated Reef Fish Identification Tropical Pacific by the same author, A Diver's Guide to Reef Life by Andrea and Antonella Ferrari and A Divers Guide to Underwater Malaysia Macrolife by Andrea and Antonella Ferrari - the latter, despite its misleading title, representing in my opinion the final word on Indo-Pacific critters.