Book on Australian marine life

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Hi all - any recommendations for good books on identifying sea life in Australian waters? Ideally an ebook but paper also ok.
 
Australia is a big place, with very different marine environments and water temperatures around the coast. The marine life in tropical parts is more similar to marine life in SE Asia than down south in the cooler waters. I doubt you’ll find a single comprehensive book/ebook covering all of Australia.
Museum Victoria published this online guide/key for Port Phillip (i.e. around Melbourne), but it’s helpful for pretty much all the Victorian coastline, and has some relevance to other cooler waters.
Other states could have similar references too
 
To help narrow it down are you after: 1) Venomous Australian marine life that will kill you, 2) Poisonous Australian marine life that will kill you, or 3) Marine predators of Australia that will eat you (and kill you)?

I don't believe I missed any other categories of Australian marine life?
 
Neville Coleman wrote a number of books over the years, that may be available as e books, worth a search
Australian marine fishes in colour1974ReedSydneyISBN 0589071416
Shell collecting in Australia1976ReedSydneyISBN 0589071955[5]
A field guide to Australian marine life1977RigbyAdelaideISBN 0727005200[6]
A look at the wildlife of the Great Barrier Reef1978Bay BooksRushcutters Bay, NSWISBN 085835201X[7]
Scuba divers introduction to marine biology1978Australasian Marine Photographic Index[8]
The Australian beachcomber1979CollinsISBN 0002164248
Australian sea fishes south of 30s1980DoubledaySydneyISBN 0868240184
Australian sea fishes north of 30 S1981DoubledaySydneyISBN 0868240338
Fishes of Victoria1981DoubledaySydneyISBN 0868240397
The young observer's book of Australian seashells1982Methuen AustraliaSydneyISBN 0454002998[9]
Harmful fishes of Australia1982DoubledaySydneyISBN 0868240400
Nudibranchs of AustralasiaRichard C. Willan1984Australasian Marine Photographic IndexNSWISBN 094937301X[10]
Poetry in pictures: The Great Barrier ReefMark O'Connor1985Hale & IremongerSydneyISBN 0868062073[11]
The underwater Australia dive guide1987NelsonMelbourneISBN 0170069192[12]
Australia's Great Barrier Reef1990Child & AssociatesNSWISBN 086777343X, 0867773677[13]
Encyclopedia of marine animals1991BlandfordLondonISBN 0713722894
Australia's sharks & rays1992Weldon PublishingSydneyISBN 1863022627
Discover underwater Australia1994National Book Distributors and PublishersNSWISBN 1864360070[14]
Sea stars of Australasia and their relatives1994Neville Coleman's Underwater GeographicSpringwood, QueenslandISBN 0947325212[15]
The dive sites of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Comprehensive coverage of diving and snorkelling1996New Holland (Publishers) Ltd.London, Cape Town, Sydney, Singapore
Marine life of the Maldives2000AtollApollo Bay, VictoriaISBN 1876410361
Underwater naturalist2004Neville Coleman's Underwater GeographicSpringwood, QueenslandISBN 0947325298[16]
Fiji Islands: wildlife guide2005Neville Coleman's Underwater GeographicSpringwood, QueenslandISBN 9780947325466
Nudibranchs encyclopedia2008Neville Coleman's Underwater GeographicSpringwood, QueenslandISBN 9780947325411
Nudibranchs encyclopedia - 2nd edition2015underwater.c
 
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