Craig Potton Publishing
has published Coastal Fishes of New Zealand ($45). A comprehensive,
informative and up-to-date identification guide to the fishes likely to be
encountered by New Zealand divers and fishers.
Featuring 221 species of
fish and packed with over 275 superb colour photographs of live fish in their
natural habitats this book includes all of New Zealand’s common reef fishes.
The author, marine scientist Malcolm Francis, has also included the latest
research and provided a wealth of other information about identifying features,
geographical distribution, habitat and biological features, such as feeding,
growth, spawning and behaviour.
About the Author
Malcolm Francis is a Principal Scientist at the National
Institute of Water and Atmosphere Research in Wellington.
He has been the author of
four editions of Coastal Fishes of New Zealand, and co-authored Sharks and Rays of NewZealand, and the award winning The Living Reef: The Ecology of New Zealand’s Rocky Reefs.
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