Suggested reading

There's a decided lack of books about barracuda, though I did find a children's book by Donald de Sylva at my local library (that was a real surprise and a great little book). Some of the following have relevant information, at least, and most are excellent books for general reading...

Allen, Gerald, & Steene, Roger (1994) Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Field Guide. Tropical Reef Research, Singapore.

Aw, Michael (1993) Beneath Bunaken, Ocean Geographic, Pennant Hills.

Auerbach, Paul (1991) Diving the Rainbow Reefs. Darwin Press.

Cousteau, Jacques (1979) The Ocean World. Abradale-Abrams, New York.

DeLoach, Ned & Humann, Paul (1999) Reef Fish Behavior — Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas. New World Publications, Jacksonville.

Doubilet, David (1989) Light in the Sea. Thomasson-Grant, Charlottesville.

Doubilet, David (1999) Water, Light, Time. Phaidon Press, London.

Ellis, Richard (1983) The Book of Sharks. Robert Hale, London.

Fautin, Daphne & Allen, Gerald R. (1997) Field Guide to Anemonefishes and their Host Sea Anemones (New Edition). Western Australian Museum Press, Perth.

Hall, Michele & Hall, Howard (1997) Secrets of the Ocean Realm. Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York.

Halstead, Dinah, Halstead, Bob & Sarta, Sergio (1998) The Coral Reefs of Papua New Guinea. Adventures, Milan.

Harrigan, Stephen (1992) Water and Light. Houghton Mifflin Company.

Humann, Paul (1994) Reef Fish Identification — Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas (2nd edition). New World Publications, Jacksonville.

Johannes, Robert (1981) Words of the Lagoon. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Jones, Burt & Shimlock, Maurine (1996) Secret Sea. Fourth Day Publishing, San Antonio.

Klimley, A. Peter & Ainley, David G. (editors) (1996) Great White Sharks: The Biology of Carcharodon carcharias. Academic Press, San Diego.

Myers, Robert F. 1999. Micronesian Reef Fishes. (3rd Edition). Coral Graphics, Guam.

Newbert, Christopher (1984) Within a Rainbowed Sea. Beyond Words Publishing, Honolulu.

Newbert, Christopher & Wilms, Birgitte (1995) In a Sea of Dreams. Fourth Day Publishing, San Antonio.

Randall, John, Allen, Gerald & Steene, Roger (1997) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea (2nd edition). University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.

Sale, Peter (editor) (1991) The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs. Academic Press, San Diego.

Sale, Peter (editor) (2002) Coral Reef Fishes: Dynamics and Diversity in a Complex Ecosystem. Academic Press, San Diego.

Severns, Michael & Fiene-Severns, Pauline (1995) Sulawesi Seas: Indonesia's Magnificent Underwater Realm. Staples-Ecenbarger Publishing, Concord.

Spalding, Mark D, Ravilious, Corinna & Green, Edmund P. (2001) World Atlas of Coral Reefs. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Stafford-Deitsch, Jeremy (1987) Shark — A Photographer's Story. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco.

Stafford-Deitsch, Jeremy (1991) Reef — a Safari through the Coral World. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco.

Steene, Roger (1990) Coral Reefs — Nature's Richest Realm. Mallard Press, New York.

Steene, Roger (1998) Coral Seas. Firefly Books, Toronto.

van der Loos, Rob (2001) Living Reefs of the Indo-Pacific. New Holland Publishers, Sydney.

Wells, Sue, & Hanna, Nick (1992) The Greenpeace Book of Coral Reefs. Sterling, New York.

Wilson, Roberta, & James Wilson, (1985).Watching Fishes. Harper & Row (reprinted in 1992 by Pisces Guides).

Wong, Michael P (1991) Sipadan — Borneo's Underwater Paradise. Odyssey Publishing, Singapore.

Wu, Norbert (1994) Splendors of the Sea. Hugh Lauter Levin Associates,Hong Kong.

Wu, Norbert (1994) How to Photograph Underwater. Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg.

Wu, Norbert (1996) City Under the Sea: Life in a Coral Reef. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York.


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