Overview
This volume is a comprehensive treatment of the fish of one of the world's richest biotic provinces. The thousand or so species included in the book are divided into 102 family sections. The families are arranged following the traditional system of phylogeny. Each family is introduced with information on food habits, reproduction and distribution. Most are illustrated with colour underwater photographs, making virtually every fish encountered by anglers, divers and beach walkers easily and quickly identifiable.
Full Product Details
Author: John E. Randall ,
Gerald R. Allen ,
Roger C. Steene
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Imprint: University of Hawai'i Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 2.440kg
ISBN: 9780824818951
ISBN 10: 0824818954
Pages: 580
Publication Date: 01 March 1998
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"A tour-de-force; an identification guide which is attractive to the amateur diver on reefs, yet extremely useful to the specialist ichthyologist.-- ""Journal of Natural History"""
A tour-de-force; an identification guide which is attractive to the amateur diver on reefs, yet extremely useful to the specialist ichthyologist.-- Journal of Natural History
A tour-de-force; an identification guide which is attractive to the amateur diver on reefs, yet extremely useful to the specialist ichthyologist.
Author Information
"John E. Randall has described 555 new fishes--more coral-reef species than anyone else in history. He has authored 635 publications in marine biology, 9 of which are regional guides on the fishes of the Caribbean Sea, Hawaiian Islands, Red Sea, Oman, and Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Since 1970 he has been senior ichthyologist at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu. ""After getting a B.S. degree in zoology from UCLA in 1950, John Randall sailed his 37-foot ketch to Hawai'i for doctoral study at the University of Hawai'i. His first academic position was assistant professor at the University of Miami, Florida. Four years later, he accepted the position of professor of zoology at the University of Puerto Rico as well as director of the Institute of Marine Biology. He returned to Hawai'i in 1965 as the director of the Oceanic Institute. From 1970 to 2009 he served as the senior ichthyologist with the Bishop Museum. Dr. Randall is the world's foremost authority on tropical marine fishes. He has authored 745 publications in marine biology, which have included the descriptions of 27 new genera and 686 new species of fishes, ten of which have been discovered in Hawai'i in the last decade. He has written regional guides to the fishes of the Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, Oman, Maldive Islands, and the Great Barrier Reef of Australia."" --Dr. Bruce A. Carlson, science officer, Georgia Aquarium Gerald R. Allen served as Senior Curator of Fishes at the Western Australian Museum in Perth and is an international authority on the classification of coral reef fishes. Since leaving the Museum in 1997, he has worked as a private consultant, primarily involved with coral reef fish surveys in Southeast Asia for Conservation International."
