Subject: Re: Belize fish books
Date: Jul 19 12:13:39 1995
From: Peter Rauch - peterr at violet.berkeley.edu


To update/add to Dennis' list of fish books, ...

Goodson, Gar. Fishes of the Atlantic Coast, Canada to Brazil, including
the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Bermuda, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean.
Stanford University Press, 1985. (This is a later printing with minor
corrections of the 1976 book cited by Dennis; gives the reader
a sense of the ichthyological family groupings, in addition to
individual species accounts)

Chaplin, Charles. Fishwatchers Guide to West Atlantic Coral Reefs.
Harrowood Books, Newtown Square, Penn. 1972. 65pp. (waterproof
plastic, stainless staples!, or paper) (contains 184 nicely illustrated
commonly observed fishes of the over-600 species in the region)

I don't know the status of availability or currency of edition of either
of these.

Let us know if you "have" any birds while on the reefs....)
Peter