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A tsunami of color photos drowns the eye in this nifty combination of a serious text introducing tropical marine ecosystems and a field guide to hundreds of ray-finned fish, elasmobranchs, marine mammals and reptiles, and dozens of the invertebrates to be found in said ecosystems. Covering the "coral belt" that girds our planet, the essays on mangrove forests, antipredation behaviors, mimic octopuses, and the vagaries of marine sex life among reef dwellers do an admirable job of opening windows into this watery world. There are maps of coral areas from the Maldives to French Polynesia to the Eastern Caribbean Sea, giving divers a paragraph or ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More