Reef Creature Identification Tropical Pacific by Paul Humann, Ned DeLoach

Blogged by Simon on October 15, 2010 7:27pm | Last updated by Simon on October 15, 2010 7:27pm |

Reef Creature Identification Tropical Pacific by Paul Humann and Ned DeLoachA couple of months ago, I was contacted by Ned DeLoach, one of the authors of this book, and asked if I wanted to contribute a shot. I have been looking forward to it’s release ever since and today the mailman finally delivered a small package, exciting!

Reef Creature Identification is the companion volume to Reef Fish Identification, covering 1600 tropical marine creatures, such as shrimp, lobsters, crabs, snails, sea slugs, squid, cuttlefish, octopus, nudibranchs and feather stars – in plain English: anything that doesn’t look like fish. The list is long and makes the book a muck diver’s friend and probably a big future hit with macro photographers.

Each section comes with an introduction to it’s place in the animal kingdom, together with the same pencil outlines that made the previous book (see above) a useful tool to identify unknown species. As we’re on that subject – a great many critters in here are new or undetermined species which is exciting.

Also noteworthy, the quality of available underwater photography has increased since the last book, which dates to 2003, and the sharpness and level of detail in macro photography are a notch up for a scientific publication of this proportion. This includes a great many super macro shots of otherwise cryptic little reef species.

If you need a muck diving ID book, put this on your shopping list.

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