Pacific Coast Pelagic Invertebrates

Pacific Coast Pelagic Invertebrates
Author: David Wrobel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1998
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

This fine monograph is the first all-color photo guide to the jellies, comb jellies, pelagic snails, salps and pyrosomes. This field guide covers animals that are found from Alaska to Baja California, many of which occur in most of the world's seas. A total of 160 species are illustrated with a color photo-95 cnidarians, 28 ctenophers, 23 molluscs and 14 tunicates. The narrative for each species includes a detailed description, geographic range, and natural history. Also included are a glossary, selected references and an index.

Coral Reef Animals of the Indo-Pacific

Coral Reef Animals of the Indo-Pacific
Author: Terrence Gosliner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1996
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Scientific field guide is profusely illustrated with colour photos. for divers, aquarists, biologists; includes ecological interactions and scientific data.

Reef Fish Identification

Reef Fish Identification
Author: Paul Humann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2003
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

The diversity, quantity and vitality of fish life in the seas that bathe the Galapagos archipelago is every bit as dramatic as the exotic wildlife above! Completely updated with many new photos added. A much improved identification book for one of the world's natural underwater wonders. If you are even thinking of diving the Galapagos this beautiful, comprehensive fish identification guide is a must.

Coral Reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific

Coral Reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific
Author: Peter W. Glynn
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2016-08-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401774994

This book documents and examines the state of health of coral reefs in the eastern tropical Pacific region. It touches on the occurrence of coral reefs in the waters of surrounding countries, and it explores their biogeography, biodiversity and condition relative to the El Niño southern oscillation and human impacts. Additionally contained within is a field that presents information on many of the species presented in the preceding chapters.

Reef Creature Identification

Reef Creature Identification
Author: Paul Humann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781878348449

"A comprehensive field guide for identifying the marine fishes of Florida, the Caribbean, and the Bahamas."--Page 4 of cover.

Reef Creature Identification

Reef Creature Identification
Author: Paul Humann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Coral reef animals
ISBN: 9781878348531

First published in 1992, this guide has been significantly expanded in a new 3rd edition. The popular, user-friendly field guide, covering all major groups of marine invertebrates encountered by divers on coral reefs and adjacent habitats, has grown to include 900 species beautifully documented with more than 1200 underwater photographs -- nearly doubling the total in the previous editions. Les Wilk has joined Paul Humann and Ned DeLoach authoring the comprehensive new edition.

Nudibranchs of the Coral Triangle

Nudibranchs of the Coral Triangle
Author: Andrey Ryanskiy
Publisher: Andrey Ryanskiy
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2022-11-09
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 5604204919

Nudibranchs of the Coral Triangle became the only guide to nudibranchs on the market with an up-to-date 2022 taxonomy after its major update (November 2022) This book is a field guide, an assistant for the identification of nudibranchs species in the region. It is designed for divers, underwater photographers. The book presents 1060+ species nudibranchs that can be found and photographed in depths and regions accessible to recreational diving. Photographs, showing color variations and age differences are included. A lot of species covered by this guide have never before appeared in field guides or popular books. Compact text blocks provide information about Common name, Latin name, family, geographic distribution, size, and the most distinctive features. An extensive photo index at the beginning of the book helps you to find the right group of nudibranchs, especially for readers who have not yet mastered their names. Nudibranchs or sea slugs occur throughout the world’s oceans and are present in many marine habitats. The greatest diversity of species is found in the Indo-Pacific tropics with a concentration of species within the Coral Triangle (CT), encompassing the waters of six Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Malaysia, Timor-Leste and Solomon Islands. This global epicenter of marine biodiversity covers only 1.6 percent of the planet’s oceanic area, but attracts an increasing number of divers and underwater photographers, including nudibranch lovers.