Best ID Books for Pacific specifically French Polynesia

[rebubulus]

I was wondering what some of the better id books are for the pacific. I've seen Paul Humann's Book Reef Creatures. What are some others?

 

[vladimir]

This one by Allen, Steene is good, but not as comprehensive as Humann. It has a basic introduction to marine taxonomy which the lay reader (me) will appreciate, in addition to good ID pictures:

Amazon.com: Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Field Guide: Gerald R. Allen; Roger Steene: Books

This one has color drawings, rather than photos. It is better at differentiating between similar species than any of the photo books and is very comprehensive:

http://www.amazon.com/Coral-Reef-Fishes-Ewald-Lieske/dp/0691004811/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product

Neither is specific to French Polynesia.

 

[rebubulus]

thanks for the help vladimir. Those books both look pretty interesting. I'll have to check them out.
anyone else have some suggestions?

 

[Magnus.s]

Coral Reef Fishes by Ewald Lieske & Robert Myers from Collins has helped me ID most of the fishes on my website.
Welcome to LivingAt, Chromodoris kuniei

Try the fish quiz if you want to practice

// Magnus;

 

[rebubulus]

magnus does that book have color photographs? the look inside feature on amazon is lousy for this book.
nice photos. what kinda camera setup do you use?


Thanks- rebub

 

[Magnus.s]

Thanks

I've been using Olympus cameras for the last six years and since last year I replaced my Ikelite strobe for two two Sea&Sea's. Above water I have been using Nikon, and the plan is to go all Nikon this year, also underwater...

"Coral Reef Fishes" uses drawings. There pros and cons with both, one good thing with "Coral Reef Fishes" is that there are (often) small arrows pointing on distinguishing features for similar species... I quite often my books together with google images when I'm not sure ((and if I get stuck I ask for help on Scubaboard ))

// Magnus;