fish id question

[Charlie99]

Slightly off topic - what resources would you use to identify sponges ?

Try the "Reef Creature Identification, Florida Caribbean, Bahamas" book by Paul Humann, edited by Ned Deloach. It's a companion volume to his Reef Fish ID book. The 3rd book in the group is Reef Coral ID. IIRC, you can buy all 3 books as a set. Another related book is the Reef Fish Behavior book by Ned Deloach. All are great!

Charlie

 

[lhpdiver]

Yup - got all 3 Humann books. Was looking for something a little more scientific. eg For sponges I'd like to get down to spicule type. I've sent off an email to Harbor Branch - but I'd appreciate any other reference material.

 

[archman]

Was looking for something a little more scientific. eg For sponges I'd like to get down to spicule type. I've sent off an email to Harbor Branch - but I'd appreciate any other reference material.

Squirt off an email to G.P. Schmahl, over at the Flower Garden Banks Sanctuary office. He's a sponge expert for the Caribbean, albeit he rarely gets much time to work on them anymore. Sponge taxonomy is not something to be tackled lightly, even for most marine invertebrate zoologists (like me).

george.schmahl@noaa.gov

 

[lhpdiver]

Squirt off an email to G.P. Schmahl, over at the Flower Garden Banks Sanctuary office. He's a sponge expert for the Caribbean, albeit he rarely gets much time to work on them anymore. Sponge taxonomy is not something to be tackled lightly, even for most marine invertebrate zoologists (like me).

george.schmahl@noaa.gov

Thanks. Will do. Actually my undergraduate degree was in marine bio - nearly 30 years ago. Finished up at West Indies Lab on St Croix where my senior project was to id the sponge fauna. When it came time to make a living, I opted for computers. You're a lucky person.