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	• Reef Fish Identification - Tropical Pacific Gerald Allen, Roger Steene, ... New World Publications, 2003 - 457 pages average customer review:based on 23 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Best in show for fish lovers

Best one we've seen during our numerous diving trips, even the rare fishes are in there with good picture.
must have if you like to identify the fishes you see. small enough to carry on trips.

Reef Fish of the Tropical Pacific

This book helped me to identify virtually every fish I have seen on several diving trips to five different Pacific Islands. This includes North and South Pacific, Western and Central Pacific.

Too much information?

Although this book is everything you would expect, it actually was too much information (if that is possible). We were looking specifically for fish i.d. for Hawaii. This book covers such a larger area that it was difficult to find just the fish of Hawaii, so we opted to also purchase a book specific to Hawaii fish. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this book, it is thorough and complete, just not what WE were looking for.If you want to know the fish of the entire tropical Pacific then this IS the book for you.

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Good for South Pacific Islands, don't use for Sea of Cortez

I was living on the Sea of Cortez and bought this (before Humann came out with the Baja to Panama book). It would be a great guide in Hawaii, Fiji, Tahiti, etc. but it's just about useless in Baja.

If you are looking for good fish books for Baja, my choices (out of the dozen or so I own) are:

Reef Fish Identification: Baja to Panama -- If I had to pick just one, this would be it. It's really designed for identification and some of the others are better to learn about the fish once you've identified it. Tons of color photos.

Sea of Cortez Marine Animals: A Guide to the Common Fishes and Invertebrates Baja California to Panama -- A good compromise between identification and learning about the fish. Covers most of the common fish, but not as many as the above. Uses color photos.

Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez: The Rocky-Shore Fishes of the Gulf of -- Best book to learn about the fish, but not as strong on ID. Covers a lot of fish. Some color photos, other B&W photos, many drawings.

Fishes of the Pacific Coast: Alaska to Peru, Including the Gulf of California and the Galapagos Islands -- Inexpensive, pocket-sized book, color drawings, short info on each fish. Best book for edibility information.

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Reef Fish of the Tropical Pacific

This book helped me to identify virtually every fish I have seen on several diving trips to five different Pacific Islands. This includes North and South Pacific, Western and Central Pacific.

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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