Book on Australian marine life

[ross9]

Hi all - any recommendations for good books on identifying sea life in Australian waters? Ideally an ebook but paper also ok.

 

[elmo]

Australia is a big place, with very different marine environments and water temperatures around the coast. The marine life in tropical parts is more similar to marine life in SE Asia than down south in the cooler waters. I doubt you’ll find a single comprehensive book/ebook covering all of Australia.
Museum Victoria published this online guide/key for Port Phillip (i.e. around Melbourne), but it’s helpful for pretty much all the Victorian coastline, and has some relevance to other cooler waters.

Port Phillip Bay Taxonomy Toolkit

Port Phillip Bay Taxonomic Toolkit

portphillipmarinelife.net.au

Other states could have similar references too

 

[Tassie_Rohan]

To help narrow it down are you after: 1) Venomous Australian marine life that will kill you, 2) Poisonous Australian marine life that will kill you, or 3) Marine predators of Australia that will eat you (and kill you)?

I don't believe I missed any other categories of Australian marine life?

 

[diver257a]

Hi all - any recommendations for good books on identifying sea life in Australian waters? Ideally an ebook but paper also ok.

Hi Ross9

I have lots of books, but I tend to use the following mobile phone app when I need to do some identifying - sea life australia

 

[Russjstewart]

Neville Coleman wrote a number of books over the years, that may be available as e books, worth a search

Australian marine fishes in colour		1974	Reed	Sydney	ISBN 0589071416
Shell collecting in Australia		1976	Reed	Sydney	ISBN 0589071955	[5]
A field guide to Australian marine life		1977	Rigby	Adelaide	ISBN 0727005200	[6]
A look at the wildlife of the Great Barrier Reef		1978	Bay Books	Rushcutters Bay, NSW	ISBN 085835201X	[7]
Scuba divers introduction to marine biology		1978	Australasian Marine Photographic Index			[8]
The Australian beachcomber		1979	Collins		ISBN 0002164248
Australian sea fishes south of 30s		1980	Doubleday	Sydney	ISBN 0868240184
Australian sea fishes north of 30 S		1981	Doubleday	Sydney	ISBN 0868240338
Fishes of Victoria		1981	Doubleday	Sydney	ISBN 0868240397
The young observer's book of Australian seashells		1982	Methuen Australia	Sydney	ISBN 0454002998	[9]
Harmful fishes of Australia		1982	Doubleday	Sydney	ISBN 0868240400
Nudibranchs of Australasia	Richard C. Willan	1984	Australasian Marine Photographic Index	NSW	ISBN 094937301X	[10]
Poetry in pictures: The Great Barrier Reef	Mark O'Connor	1985	Hale & Iremonger	Sydney	ISBN 0868062073	[11]
The underwater Australia dive guide		1987	Nelson	Melbourne	ISBN 0170069192	[12]
Australia's Great Barrier Reef		1990	Child & Associates	NSW	ISBN 086777343X, 0867773677	[13]
Encyclopedia of marine animals		1991	Blandford	London	ISBN 0713722894
Australia's sharks & rays		1992	Weldon Publishing	Sydney	ISBN 1863022627
Discover underwater Australia		1994	National Book Distributors and Publishers	NSW	ISBN 1864360070	[14]
Sea stars of Australasia and their relatives		1994	Neville Coleman's Underwater Geographic	Springwood, Queensland	ISBN 0947325212	[15]
The dive sites of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Comprehensive coverage of diving and snorkelling		1996	New Holland (Publishers) Ltd.	London, Cape Town, Sydney, Singapore
Marine life of the Maldives		2000	Atoll	Apollo Bay, Victoria	ISBN 1876410361
Underwater naturalist		2004	Neville Coleman's Underwater Geographic	Springwood, Queensland	ISBN 0947325298	[16]
Fiji Islands: wildlife guide		2005	Neville Coleman's Underwater Geographic	Springwood, Queensland	ISBN 9780947325466
Nudibranchs encyclopedia		2008	Neville Coleman's Underwater Geographic	Springwood, Queensland	ISBN 9780947325411
Nudibranchs encyclopedia - 2nd edition		2015	underwater.c

 

[Russjstewart]

Of course if you are coming to Oz Carl Edmonds book Marine Animal Injuries to Man is worth a read. https://www.diversitybooks.com.au/product/4033/MARINE-ANIMAL-INJURIES-TO-MAN

 

[Sumo888]

My go to book is Sea fishes of Southern Australia by Barry Hutchins | Open Library.

 

[DivingAroundAsia]

For the west coast, I recommend the books by Aqua Research And Monitoring (Fish Identification and Marine biodiversity | Aquamonitoring):
* Ningaloo Marine Life
* The Perth Coast Fish Book
* The Rottnest Island Fish Book