The 2nd edition of Reef Fish Identification – Tropical Pacific (first released in 2003), features more than 200 additional species, hundreds of improved photos, scientific name changes and range extensions. Tropical Pacific by Gerald Allen, Roger Steene, Paul Humann, Ned DeLoach This book illustrates 2,138 Indo-Pacific nudibranchs and sea slugs, including many undescribed species. There are about 3,000 described species of these organisms in the world and at least 40% have been found exclusively in the Indo-Pacific tropics. The nudibranchs and sea slugs are no exception. This region supports the most diverse marine fauna of any place in the world for most groups of marine organisms. The Indo-Pacific represents the largest expanse of tropical ocean in the world, stretching from the Indian Ocean coast of southern Africa and the Red Sea to the central Pacific of the Hawaiian Islands, Easter Island and the Marquesas. Includes additional photographs of species, an identification key, and an up-to-date classification. Now in a 2nd Edition- updated and reorganized, to include 185 new species and taxonomic changes. In 2015 three leading scientific experts on nudibranchs and sea slugs collaborated to produce this comprehensive guide for divers and scientists to the Indo-Pacific region. Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification 2nd Editionīy Terrance Gosliner, Angel Valdes and David Behrens Together with his wife Anna DeLoach, they produced a 2nd edition in 2019 with updated and new information. ![]() In 1996 Ned wrote Reef Fish Behavior - Florida Caribbean Bahamas about what was currently known on the reproduction, feeding, life cycles, symbiosis and other behaviors of reef fishes. ![]() In November of 2010, after five years of extensive field photography in the Pacific, New World Publications published Reef Creature Identification - Tropical Pacific, the most comprehensive field guide ever published about the marine invertebrate community of the vast region stretching from Thailand to Tahiti. Anna DeLoach produced the DVDs, Sensational Seas (2004), Reef Fish Identification - A Beginning Course (2007) and Sensational Seas Two (2010). They also helped distribute works for friends Howard Hall, Cathy Church, Marty Snyderman, Helmut Debelius and Constantinos Petrinos. New World has also published Nudibranch Behavior by Dave Behrens, Sea Salt by Stan Waterman and Diving Pioneers and Innovators by Bret Gilliam. In 2003, Paul and Ned partnered with the late John Jackson of Odyssey Publishing, ichthyologist Gerry Allen and Australian photographer Roger Steene for the publication of Reef Fish Identification - Tropical Pacific. The popular, user-friendly format conceived for the tropical western Atlantic identification books spawned a series of fish identification books for other regions including the Galapagos Islands, the West Coast from California to Alaska and the Gulf of California to Panama. ![]() The innovative, user-friendly fish identification guide was soon followed by two companion volumes, Reef Creature Identification (1992) and Reef Coral Identification (1993), which together make up the now famous Reef Set. It was awarded the Independent Book Publisher's Benjamin Franklin Award for best reference book of 1994. Since then that book has gone through 17 printings of four editions. Combining his knowledge of marine wildlife and the dive business with Ned’s background in education and publishing, the pair published the first edition of Reef Fish Identification - Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas in 1989. ![]() When Ocean Realm was eventually sold, the pair made the decision to leave the magazine business and concentrate their efforts on developing a series of marine life field guides for divers.ĭuring Paul’s decade-long stint as owner/operator of the Cayman Diver he amassed an extensive library of underwater images. A few years later, when the new owners of Ocean Realm magazine appointed Ned to the position of editor-in-chief, he invited Paul to join him as co-editor. In the early 1980's a mutual friend introduced Ned DeLoach to Paul Humann.
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