Handy Pocket Guide to Tropical Coral Reef Fishes (Handy Pocket Guides)

I really enjoyed this book! We went to Jamaica and snorkled for the first time ever. I bought this book thinking my 7 year old would enjoy flipping through the pics while we were on the airplane headed to Jamaica, little did I know that every time we got back from snorkling I would grab it up to understand what I saw!! I literally wore the book out in a week from reading and flipping through the pages.

PLEASE NOTE THAT MY MENTION OF THE GA AQUARIUM FACILITY DOES NOT TRANSLATE IN THE AQUARIUM ENDORSEMENT OF ANY ITEM I MIGHT REFER TO IN MY REVIEW! I am a volunteer at the GA Aquarium and I found this book while on the look out for something quick and easy to refer to while reviewing my fish identification skills. I use this book all the time when I browse around the aquarium and or I have a quick guest question. I didn't give it 5 stars because I wished it included more species and allowed me to make it my main go to quick-guide. My all time favorite so far is "Coral Reef Fishes: Indo-Pacific and Caribbean" by Ewald Lieske and Robert Myers. I especially like the fact that it provides the fish silouettes by family: this helps me quite a bit as it allows me to narrow down to a family when I am confused :) Enjoy!

I bought this for an upcoming trip to the Florida Keys. We want our granddaughters to learn to love the marine environment as much as we do. This simple, small book it perfect “beach bag” size.

This an introduction and beginners guide for reef fishes recognition. Simple and comprehensive descriptions. Avid divers will find this insufficient.

This book is titled tropical fish, but on my trip to Thailand, I only saw one of the very few fish included in the book. This book’s title should be changed to indicate why this particular small set of tropical fish were selected out of the enormous variety of tropical fish that exist in the world. Are these particular fish more common in one tropical area? If so, be specific in the title, as I found this book pretty useless in identifying the tropical fish I encountered in Phuket, Thailand.

This is a very informative book!!

The Kindle edition is not satisfactory: the photos are usually on the next page, next to the text for a different fish. And of course one can't flick through the pages to find a picture like the fish one has just seen. The price is very low, so I'm going to buy the print edition and ignore my Kindle version.

This is a nice field guide for basic information and basic identification. I would like more scientific information on the animals covered and maybe more animals to be covered overall. But I understand this is a book that is meant to be small and easy to use for all ages and education levels. Very convenient size too.

Saving it for snorkeling trip but looks good for quick guide that is small.

Bien mais un peu déçue par l'épaisseur du livre, c'est très, trop succint

very helpful for identification purposes

Très très basique. Ne pas compter dessus pour le snorkling, mais peut convenir à un enfant fan de poissons! Préférer peut-etre les tablettes ou posters utilisés par les plongeurs.

It's what it says it is - a handy pocket guide, and a useful one. The author also has some larger more detailed works on the sublect in publication, but for the tourist/beachcomber in the area this little guide is useful.