When a member completes our fish identification course, their
contact with the REEFNGOM has not ended. The field station
supplies survey materials, organizes survey dives (such as the
GAFC), and provides fish ID information to the public. If a
surveyor cannot determine the identity of a species they
encounter, we will cross-reference the fish's qualities in our
library to give the surveyor a head start if not a positive
identification of the animal. Our library includes the following
resources:
Reef Fish Identification (Florida, Caribbean, and Bahamas)-Volume
1 by Paul Humann. New World
Publications, Inc. Printed by Vaughan Press in Orlando, FL,
1989.
**Highly Recommended!** Reef Fish Identification (Florida,
Caribbean, and Bahamas)-Volume 2 by Paul Humann. New World Publications, Inc.
Printed by Paramount Miller Graphics, Inc., 1994.
**Highly Recommended!** Reef Series: Volume 1-Fishes of
the Caribbean and Adjacent Waters CD-ROM by ReefNet Software.
Contact the REEFNGOM to
get details on this CD and to how order it.
Reef Fish Identification (Florida, Caribbean, and Bahamas)
CD-ROM by New World Publications,
Inc.,1997.
Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico-Volume 1 by John D. McEachran
and Janice D. Fechhelm. Cover photo by Greg Bunch.
Printed by the University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 1998. This
reference can be found on Amazon.com.
Ned DeLoach's Diving Guide to Underwater Florida by Ned
DeLoach. New World Publications,
Inc.,1997.
In addition, information previously collected on local fish
populations by the Marine
Biology Department of the University of West Florida was
provided by Dr. Richard
Snyder; Mrs. Sonya Wood Mahler of the University of Florida's
Cooperative Extension Service; and Mr. Robert Turpin, a graduate
student of U.W.F. in the marine sciences.
Please email all questions to info@reefngom.org.