References

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Reviews, comments and other topics on fish literature.

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Fish Guides

7 October 2012 - 10:39am — tony rebelo
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If any major Field Guide is missing, please post them in reply and we will add them:

Freshwater:

Crass, 1964. Freshwater fishes of Natal. Shuter and Shooter.

Jubb, 1965. Freshwater fishes of the Cape Province. Ann. Cape Prov Mus.

Jubb, 1967. Freshwater fishes of southern Africa. Balkema.

Pienaar, 1978. The freshwater fishes of the Kruger National Park. SANParks.

Bruton, Jackson & Skleton, 1982. Pocket guide to the freshwater fishes of southern Africa. Centaur.

Kenmuir, 1983. Fishes of Kariba. Longman.

Bellcross & Minshull, 1988. The fishes of Zimbabwe. NM&MZ.

Skelton, 2001. A complete guide to the freshwater fishes of southern Africa. Struik.

Garrow & Marr, 2012. Swimming to the edge of Extinction: the perilous state of the ingenious freshwater fishes of the Western Cape. NISC, Grahamstown

Marine:

Smith & Heemstra, 1986. Smith's sea fishes. Macmillan.

van der Elst, 1981, 1988. A guide to the common sea fishes of southern Africa. Struik.

Commpagno, Ebert, Smale, 1989. Guide to the Sharks and Rays of southern Africa. Struik.

van der Elst, 1990. Everyone's guide to sea fishes of southern Africa. Struik.

Phil & Elaine Heemstra, 2004. Coastal Fishes of Southern Africa. NISC and SAIAB, Grahamstown

2O: Branch, Griffiths, Branch & Beckley, 1994, 2007. Two Oceans: a guide to the marine life of southern Africa. Struik.

Estuaries:

None.

Regional Guides.

Cape Peninsula:

Zsilavecz, 2005. Coastal fishes of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay. SURG.

Jones, 2008. A field guide to the marine animals of the Cape Peninsula. SURG.

Tsitsikamma:

Smith & Smith, 1966. Fishes of the Tsitsikama Coastal National Park. SANParks.

East Coast:

King, 1996. Reef fishes and corals east cost of southern Africa. Struik.

King & Fraser, 1996. More reef fishes and nudibranchs, east and south coast of southern Africa. Struik.

Other marine guides:

see http://ispot.org.za/forum/7685

Electronic Resources:

9 March 2014 - 2:20pm — tony rebelo
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Everyone seems to have standardized on Fishbase. Use it!

http://www.fishbase.org/home.htm

FishBase

13 March 2014 - 4:33pm — Wynand Uys
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I find the easiest way to search on Fishbase is: goto http://www.fishbase.org/search.php
Scroll down to "Information by family", select the family from the dropdown box, then tick "Identification by pictures".
wait....wait...wait

Then, if you're faced with too many species, narrow the search by selecting an ocean or by specifying the country.

another electronic resource

18 June 2014 - 11:09am — RosePalmer
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this is another fantastic webpage, you can browse photographs of likely species etc. by clicking on the "browse data" tab
http://www.fishwisepro.com/

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