Guide to Sea Fishes of Australia

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GUIDE TO SEA FISHES OF AUSTRALIA is a comprehensive and practical handbook that identifies fishes commonly seen in Australian waters. The species entries are grouped in families in the internationally accepted scientific order. Families are arranged so that those with closely related features follow on from one another, making comparison easy Length measurements for adults are given along with general text highlighting diagnostic features, interesting aspects of the species and habitat. Every species account is accompanied by one or more colour photographs, nearly all of which show the fishes in their natural habitat, and a distribution map. All these features enable positive identification of over 950 species.
Rudie H. Kuiter was Dutch bom and educated and his interest in fish developed as a child fishing in the rivers and canals of his homeland. He came to Australia in 1964 at the age of 21 and followed a career as an electronic engineer, but turned his fish hobby into... Tovább

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GUIDE TO SEA FISHES OF AUSTRALIA is a comprehensive and practical handbook that identifies fishes commonly seen in Australian waters. The species entries are grouped in families in the internationally accepted scientific order. Families are arranged so that those with closely related features follow on from one another, making comparison easy Length measurements for adults are given along with general text highlighting diagnostic features, interesting aspects of the species and habitat. Every species account is accompanied by one or more colour photographs, nearly all of which show the fishes in their natural habitat, and a distribution map. All these features enable positive identification of over 950 species.
Rudie H. Kuiter was Dutch bom and educated and his interest in fish developed as a child fishing in the rivers and canals of his homeland. He came to Australia in 1964 at the age of 21 and followed a career as an electronic engineer, but turned his fish hobby into full-time employment in 1978. He has dived extensively throughout the west Pacific and east Indian Ocean as far as Japan and the Maldives. The author of Coastal Fishes of South-Eastern Australia and Tropical Reef Fishes of the Western Pacific, he has also written numerous articles and scientific papers, and is well known for his involvement in television documentaries such as the ABC's Nature of Australia series and Wolves of the Sea. He is an Associate of the Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, and of the Australian Museum, Sydney Vissza