Field guide to marine fishes of tropical Australia and South-East Asia

Field guide to marine fishes of tropical Australia and South-East Asia / Gerald R. Allen ; illustrations by Roger Swainston and Jill Ruse.

This phenomenally successful guide to the wealth and variety of fish in Australia's tropical waters - including the Great Barrier Reef - and south-east Asia has been updated and expanded. The book has sold more than 20,000 copies in its previous editions, and is an invaluable reference for dive...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allen, Gerald R.
Corporate Author: Western Australian Museum
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Welshpool, W.A. : Western Australian Museum, 2009.
Edition:4th ed.
Subjects:
Marine fishes > Australia, Northern > Identification.
Marine fishes > Australia > Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) > Identification.
Marine fishes > Southeast Asia > Identification.
NATURE > Animals > Fish.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Ichthyology & Herpetology.
Marine fishes
Northern Australia
Queensland > Great Barrier Reef
Southeast Asia
Field guides
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; Introduction; Area of Coverage; Faunal Composition; Biology of Reef Fishes; Ecology of Reef Fishes; Classification of Fishes; Preserving Fishes; Sending Specimens to the Museum; Fish Photography; Dangerous Fishes; Fish or Fishes?; How to use this Book; Colour Patterns; Edibility Ratings; Acknowledgements; Guide to Families; Fish Plates; PLATE 1: SHARKS; PLATE 2: SHARKS (FAMILY CARCHARHINIDAE); PLATE 3: SHARKS AND RAYS; PLATE 4: SHARKS AND RAYS; PLATE 5: RAYS AND GHOST SHARKS; PLATE 6: HERRINGS AND RELATIVES; PLATE 7: MORAY EELS (FAMILY MURAENIDAE).
  • Plate 8: moray eels (family muraenidae)plate 9: snake-eels and conger eels; plate 10: snake-eels and garden-eels; plate 11: catfishes and lizardfishes; plate 12: frogfishes, anglerfishes, clingfishes and cuskeels; plate 13: flying fishes, garfishes, longtoms and hardyheads; plate 14: squirrelfishes(family holocentridae); plate 15: squirrelfishes(family holocentridae); plate 16: knight fishes, dories, flutemouths, etc.; plate 17: seahorses and pipefishes (family syngnathidae); plate 18: pipefishes, scorpionfishes and stonefishes; plate 19: scorpionfishes, stonefishes and waspfishes.
  • Plate 20: scorpionfishes, waspfishes and velvetfishesplate 21: velvetfishes, gurnards and flatheads; plate 22: rockcods (family serranidae); plate 23: rockcods (family serranidae); plate 24: rockcods (family serranidae); plate 25: rockcods (family serranidae); plate 26: rockcods (family serranidae); plate 27: basslets(subfamily anthiinae; family serranidae); plate 28: longfins, dottybacks and relatives; plate 29: rockcods (serranidae) and dottybacks (pseudochromidae); plate 30: glassfishes (ambassidae), grunters(terapontidae) and whitings (sillaginidae); plate 31: bigeyes and cardinalfishes.
  • Plate 32: cardinalfishes (family apogonidae)plate 33: cardinalfishes (family apogonidae); plate 34: cardinalfishes (family apogonidae); plate 35: cardinalfishes (family apogonidae); plate 36: cardinalfishes (family apogonidae); plate 37: trevallies (family carangidae); plate 38: trevallies (family carangidae); plate 39: dolphinfishes and trevallies; plate 40: trevallies, ponyfishes andmiscellaneous families; plate 41: tropical snappers (family lutjanidae); plate 42: tropical snappers (family lutjanidae); plate 43: tropical snappers (family lutjanidae).
  • Plate 44: tropical snappers and sweetlipsplate 45: sweetlips, fusiliers and banjofishes; plate 46: fusiliers and tilefishes; plate 47: emperors and breams; plate 48: emperors (family lethrinidae); plate 49: threadfin-breams (family nemipteridae); plate 50: monocle-breams and silver biddies; plate 51: monocle-breams and goatfishes; plate 52: goatfishes (family mullidae); plate 53: croakers, bullseyes and drummers; plate 54: archerfishes and batfishes; plate 55: scats and butterflyfishes; plate 56: butterflyfishes(family chaetodontidae); plate 57: butterflyfishes(family chaetodontidae).

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