Reef Fish Identification: Tropical Pacific

A vital guide for either the informed recreation diver or the pacific coral reef student/researcher/worker. The ID photos are some of the best I've seen snd the information content is small but involving and useful. Interestingly, I found the simply drawn lined diagrams at the beginning of each section of particular use in order to help distinguish between the fish families so if when diving - the name of the species escapes you as it speedily swims by (easily done with most tropical fish with such diversity to be seen in life stages let alone between species) you may still be able to deduce the family to which it belongs with this book's help. A good investment should you be keen to improve your tropical fish ID.

I can't tell you how many times I have consulted this book after a dive. It is treated like the bible in most dive shops I have been at. The photos are excellent, the writing concise and informative, and considering the number of fish species out there, the range it covers in such a compact book is incredible. Would recommend to every diver and tropical fish lover out there.

One of the most comprehensive Fish books I've seen. The only downside is that it adds more weight than I'd like to my dive bag, but I lug it around pretty much everywhere I go diving as I find it indispensable in identifying fish. Have spent many a nerdy evening over drinks with local drive instructors poring over it and enthusing over some obscure finned creature. There is a PDF version available which my partner has very conveniently on his phone, and while it does make weight a non issue, I do miss thumbing through the pages to get to what I'm looking for...

Great fish book

I like this book in preference to some fish ID books because of the methodical way its laid out. Given that the chapters are based of physical characteristics of similar groups of fish, I find it makes it easier to identify an unknown fish from a picture (I've taken...).

I am the owner-operator of a scuba diving company in Bali, Indonesia.This is the go-to book for all of my dive staff - and hugely popular with our guests too.Well-laid out with great pictures and accurate information.If you're going to buy just one book for the Indo-Pacific (and with this one, you don't need a second), this is the book to choose.

Very good book. Nice clear high qulity pictures of every fish. The only downside is that colour variants of the same fish are rarely shown in the image meaning although they are often acknowledged in the text.

If you dont already have fish identification books, then this is a good place to start, however there is ALOT of overlap between this book and the indo- pacific version by the same publisher - same images and wording, so be careful your not just buying the same book with a different title!

details about the underwater life , must buy who are underwater photographer

Great book for fish ID / dive enthusiast. I saw many of these fish in Boracay Philippines.

Reef Fish Identification:Tropical Pacific, wir haben das Buch bei unsern Schnorchelferien auf Siladen und auf Sulawesi entdeckt die Fotos sind so zahlreich dass man ohne Probleme bei seinen eigenen Fotos und Videos die Fische bestimmen kann, ich kann das Buch nur weiter empfehlenda es viel Ausführlicher ist als die Bücher von H. Debelius von denen ich auch schon 6 verschiedene habe.

Ce livre est vraiment complet, de très belles illustrations. Cela motive à plonger encore plus pour découvrir toutes les espèces de poissons recensées dans le livre !

Ottima enciclopedia sottomarina! Completa, colorata. Per gli amanti dei fondali buon suggerimento di acquisto, ritroverete molti pesci avvistati in viaggi in giro per il mondo.