Fish Identification Book (what is good one)

bosshogg357 · Jun 2, 2005

I'm looking for a good book for fish identification. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
P.S. Mexico/Caribean diving areas. Just returned from Cozumel.

Rick Murchison · Jun 2, 2005

The "Bible" of fish ID books for that area is Humann's Reef Fish Identification. Most dive shops carry it, or you can get it from Amazon.
Rick

cjames · Jun 2, 2005

Yeah, I'd aggree, Paul's is the best for the Carribean. There is one for fish and one for inverts I think.

scubaguy655 · Jun 2, 2005

There is also one for corals/sponges.

scububa · Jun 2, 2005

Our instructor gave my kids a copy of Humann's Reef Fish Identification just before our trip to Cozumel. We reviewed it beforehand and took it with us. I think our list of fish we could repeatedly ID (in the water, in video's, and in our pictures) was about 52 after one trip.

mike_s · Jun 2, 2005

I reccomend this book also.

You can get it BUY IT NOW on Ebay for $17.99

There are also several used copies on http://www.half.com

Hank49 · Jun 2, 2005

There's this one too. http://www.sciencedaily.com/cgi-bin...ed.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0793801176

This is "the man" as far as tropical fish on Earth. He knows the common, local, and scientific name of every fish you'll see inside the tropics around the world.

Kriterian · Jun 2, 2005

scubaguy655:
There is also one for corals/sponges.

It's actually a trilogy of books that includes:

- Reef Fish
- Reef Creatures
- Reef Coral and Sponges

WellBelowH2O · Jun 2, 2005

Has anyone used Fish Flips? They look pretty nice, and you can bring them with you underwater.

Willar · Jun 2, 2005

I bought both the Reef Creature and Reef Fish (Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas) - great reading on flights to the caribbean. I thought there were other editions for asia or pacific or something but I can't find it.

The Humann/Deloach books are very well organized and easy to find the fish/creature based on shape.

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