Coral Fish (Paperback: 112 pages)

In over one hundred color photographs, Coral Fish depicts the variety of fish supported by coral reefs around the world. Biologist and award-winning photographer Linda Pitkin describes the ways in which fish have adapted to their environment, detailing each group's behaviors as well as their sizes, shapes and colors. She examines dainty butterflyfish and angelfish, slow but predatory groupers and basslets, agile wrasses, secretive blennies and gobies, and venomous scorpionfish as well as bottom-dwelling and nocturnal fish. Providing an overview of coral reef formation and development, she explains that reef-building corals cannot live in water deeper than 164 feet or cooler than sixty-four degrees Fahrenheit and summarizes the threats to coral reef viability as well as steps toward conservation.

Documenting the world of coral fish in this colorful and informative book, Linda Pitkin shows that coral reefs are important centers of biodiversity.