Reef Fish Identification - Tropical Pacific by Ned DeLoach isbn: 1878348361 457 pages, Paperback Publication date: 2003-10 Publisher: New World Publications Buy this @amazon.com List price: $45.00(USD) Price : $29.70(USD)

Editorial review

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.

Customer reviews from amazon.com

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.

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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!"

Excellent reference for identification of my species in Pacific area

"Easy to use and identify your photographs, particularly for an experienced diver used to identifying many types of fishes"