Useful, shame about the mistakes
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This is a good book for scuba diving, or identifying most fish. i used it over the summer identifying fish in indonesia for my dissertation. unfortunately it has a few mistakes and some species are missing, but then no book is perfect right?! luckily a friend had 'reef fish identification - tropical pacific' by Allen, Steene etc. the two together are unstopable, espcially when a photo of the fish is really what you need. If correct id is vital, either get the Allen book or both.
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The Best for fish!
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A thorough, yet comprehensive guide to fish of the world for both beginners and the more competent! It's halped me recognise so many more fish and having great, accurate and colourful pictures makes itvery easy to browse through in five minutes, or read and study for hours!
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A good one for casual divers and snorklers
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A good ID book... the drawings are a bit dodgy in parts... If you're a diver you're probably better off finding an ID book with photographs of the animals in their surroundings because this helps identification no-end. On the other hand, Collins Pocket Guide: Coral Reef Fishes has a lot of background information and makes a nice addition to the Collins Pocket Guides collection. It also covers a large geographical range so if you're a bit of a globetrotter you'll find this book a good travel companion.
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Great handbook!
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Exellent guide to habitats, identification of tropical reef fishes! The size is quite handy (as handbooks should be!) and will fit perfect in any scubadiver, snorkellers bag "on the road", or in my case for the marine aquarium library. The illustrations are a work of art and covers a vast number of species >2.100. A short text introduction is followed by the illustrations including, male, female, juvenile, geographical varieties and important idenfication characteristics on each plate. Impressive!
Snorkeller, scubadiver, marine aquarist - buy this book!
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