I Need Better ID Books!

[Gidds]

I need better fish and invert critter ID books. Specificly I want books for New England marine fauna. I have Leland Pollock's "A Practical Guide to the Marine Animals of Northeastern North America" which is a decent dichotamus key but it's BORING (I like pictures) and I don't like bringing it to the dive site with me like I do with my little field guides. I am also looking for a guide that has pictures or very detailed descriptions of juvenile Atlantic and/or Carribean fish.
Can you beleive that the Audubon field guide doesn't even mention the northern sennet?!
I also have Fred Bavendam's "Beneath Cold Waters, The Marine Life of New England", and while I really enjoy the pictures it's just not broad enough for my purposes.

Thanks for all suggestions

 

[Rocha]

For Caribbean/western Atlantic fish I think this is the best out there:

Reef Fish Identification: Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas
by Paul Humann, Ned Deloach

 

[mike_s]

For Caribbean/western Atlantic fish I think this is the best out there:

Reef Fish Identification: Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas
by Paul Humann, Ned Deloach

Ditto what Rocha said....

The Paul Humann/Ned DeLoach books are very good.

Reef Fish ID
http://www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?id=3264582341122&isbn=1878348302
or http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...bs_b_2_1/103-2925869-5517468?v=glance&s=books

Reef Fish Behavior
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...1/103-2925869-5517468?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance


Or get the set
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...103-2925869-5517468?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

 

[maractwin]

For New England I use Marine Life of the North Atlantic by Martinez http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...bs_b_2_1/002-2540426-9895250?v=glance&s=books

 

[archman]

Go to Amazon.com and run a book search for "atlantic fishes". There's a very large list of titles to choose from. You can also google up a course syllabus for a new england icthyology course and see what texts they are using. They usually pick out good stuff for the level of detail you appear to want.