Allen, Gerald R.,

Reef fish identification : tropical Pacific / Gerald Allen [and others]. - First edition. - 457 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour map ; 24 cm

Includes indexes.

Disk-shaped/Colorful -- Large ovals -- Small ovals: Damselfishes -- Sloping heads/Tapered bodies -- Slender schoolers/Colorful -- Heavy bodies/Large lips -- Swim with pectoral fins: Parrotfishes -- Swim with pectoral fins: Wrasses -- Reddish/Big eyes -- Cardinalfishes -- Cryptic crevice dwellers -- Elongate sand & burrow dwellers -- Small, elongate bottom dwellers: Gobies -- Small, elongate bottom dwellers: Blennies -- Odd-shaped bottom dwellers -- Odd-shaped swimmers -- Pipefishes & seahorses -- Eels -- Sharks & rays.

A comprehensive field guide to tropical Pacific fishes with photographs of fish in their natural habitats; "Includes Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea; Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, French Polynesia, and beyond"--Cover p. [4].

1878348361 9781878348364

2004351319


Coral reef fishes--Pacific Ocean--Identification
Coral reef fishes--Pacific Ocean--Pictorial works

QL623.45 / .R44 2002

597.1778909164