Help: Fish ID book for Kenya

[Palmtrees]

Hi there- I am heading to Kenya to dives for a few days in November. Before I dive anyplace new I always buy a new Fish ID book for the area, but I have been unable to find any Fish ID book for Kenya, Tanzania, Africa, or even the Indian Ocean. I have no idea what I am doing wrong. Can someone share a book they used for the area and where I could find it online.

Thanks!

 

[tridacna]

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[Wookie]

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And so I did.

But I have no FishID book for Kenya. How about you?

 

[Wookie]

This one isn't bad, although it doesn't have pretty pictures like a Humann book.

Field identification guide to the living marine resources of Kenya

This field guide covers the major resource groups likely to be encountered in the fisheries of Kenya. This includes shrimps, lobsters, crabs, bivalves, gastropods, cephalopods, sea cucumbers, sharks, batoid fishes, bony fishes, and sea turtles. Each resource group is introduced by a general...

www.fao.org

This one does, used for $12

Reef Fishes of the Indian Ocean: A... book by Gerald Allen

 

[tridacna]

And so I did.

But I have no FishID book for Kenya. How about you?

 

[chf]

I’m not aware of any specific book for east africa. The FAO report war already posted here, it’s quite good.

 

[Searcaigh]

Indian Ocean or west Indo-Pacific Fish ID books would be suitable.