Saturday, July 7, 2012

Reef Fishes Of The East Indies

  • Many people fantasize about swimming in the tropical coral reef, but very few actually get the chance to do so. For those who are unable to make the trip, Drs.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Click on icon in upper right corner of slideshow to enlarge images.
  • (Science Friday)
  • This is a giant frogfish with its floating egg raft, a mass of mucus laden with eggs. The rare photo appears in Reef Fishes of the East Indies, a huge new book set detailing 2,500 fishes of the area based on more than 60 years of research.
  • (Boing Boing (blog))
  • His work, and that of fellow veteran biologist Dr Mark Erdmann, has now been collected in a three-volume set of books, Reef Fishes of the East Indies, which spans more than 60 years of effort by the pair to document the biodiversity of those waters.
  • (News.com.au)

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