Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #72584 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 457 pages

Customer Reviews

Lots of Fish Photos from the Pacific
My wife and I are avid divers and this Reef Fish ID book is good. However, it is not quite the quality of Paul Humann's other reef guides.
On the plus side, there aree hundreds of photos. On the minus side, the photos are rather small.

Additionally, the booklet does a decent job of describing the fish but provides little information about fish behavior.

most comprehensive tropical pacific fish book
i have yet to find a fish book that has it all. but from all the fish id book i own this is the most comprehensive one. although there are a few fish found in hawaii thats not in the book.

An ambitious work
This is a very ambitious work - the number of Indo-Pacific fish species illustrated is simply staggering, often showing regional variations and juvenile forms. On the other side, image quality and reproduction are often disappointing, and the minimal texts limit its scope somewhat. It will make an unbeatable identification and learning combo when paired with the equally interesting but infinitely better illustrated A Diver's Guide to Reef Life and A Diver's Guide to Underwater Malaysia Macrolife by Andrea and Antonella Ferrari - both featuring excellent written texts, exquisite color photographs and - in the case of the latter - hundreds of entries for cephalopods, crustaceans, nudibranchs and various other invertebrates. With these three field guides in your library almost no Indo-Pacific fish or critter will be able to escape identification!