A comprehensive and practical guide to identifying sea fishes commonly seen in Australian waters, the book is for fish watchers, divers, snorkellers and anglers. It provides a view of the diversity of sea fish life along the Australian coastline.

A comprehensive and practical guide to identifying fish commonly seen in Australian waters, the book is for fish watchers, divers, snorkellers and anglers. It provides a view of the diversity of sea fish life along the Australian coastline.

A fascinating overview of the extraordinary diversity of Australia's marine and freshwater fishes, illustrated with Roger Swainston's breathtaking artwork Roger Swainston's breathtaking artwork provides a fascinating overview of the extraordinary diversity of Australia's marine and freshwater fishes. More than 1500 remarkable illustrations portray every family of fishes ever recorded from Australian waters. The names of all known species are listed alongside detailed information on the taxonomy and biology of each family.

This new title in New Holland's award-winning Green Guides series investigates the ever-popular subject of Australia's sea fishes, which include familiar species such as the anemonefishes, parrotfishes, wrasses, sharks and many more. It contains fact panels covering interesting aspects of the subject, including what these fishes eat, where they live, how they reproduce, and why certain species pack a very poisonous punch, with some of the strongest toxins known in the animal kingdom. The many beautiful images are taken from the author's own collection, which has been built up over many decades.

Full-colour photographs and distribution maps accompany each species. Some species are illustrated with two photographs to show juvenile or adult or sex variations. Each description gives common and scientific names and measurements

Australia is blessed with an abundance of fishes. More than 5,000 species of fish are found Down Under - around 15% of the known species - making Australia one of the best places in the world to see fishes, and lots of them. But where are the best spots to see a diverse range of fishes around Australia? This book is the first guide to fishwatching in Australia. Now fishwatching may be a new term for most people, but just like birdwatching it best describes what divers, snorkellers and naturalists do when they study, observe and document fishes. This book is designed especially for the fishwatcher. It is not a fish identification guide or a dive site guide, instead a sort of blending of the two - a guide to the best spots to observe sea fishes in Australia. Each of the one hundred hot-spots listed is home to a diverse range of fishes, and for each location a sample of typical fish species and families are described. However, most of these hot-spots have been selected because they are also the best place to observe unusual fishes. Throughout the pages of this book the reader will learn about the wonderful fishes of Australia, the best places to see them, how to find them and how t

Covering almost 1,100 species, often with multiple images for important life stages, this field guide represents the most comprehensive collectionof the tropical fishes found on Australian reefs, including the Great Barrier Reef, Coral Sea, Ningaloo Reef, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island.Many of the species covered are also found widely throughout the Indo- Pacific, from the Red Sea, up to Japan and across to French Polynesia, and travellers will also find this book handy, particularly for popular tropical South Pacific destinations.Authors Rick Stuart-Smith, Graham Edgar, Andrew Green and Ian Shaw have decades worth of collective experience studying andphotographing reef fishes around the world, especially through their contributions to the Reef Life Survey program (www.reeflifesurvey.com).