References used were:Photographs were taken using scuba by amateur Virginia O. Skinner (writer of this site) and also by the following people:
Bohlke, James E., and Charles C. G. Chaplin. 1968. Fishes of the Bahamas and adjacent tropical waters. Livingston Publishing Company.
Goodson, Gar. l985. Fishes of the Atlantic Coast. Stanford University Press.
Humann, Paul.1994. Reef Fish Identification.- Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas. New World Publications, Inc. 2nd Edition.
Nelson, Joseph S. l984. Fishes of the World. John Wiley and Sons.
Randall, John E. 1968. Caribbean Reef Fishes. T. F. H. Publishing Company. 1996 Third Edition revised and enlarged.
Robins, C. Richard, and G. Carleton Ray, and John Douglass. 1986. Atlantic Coast Fishes.
Peterson Field Guides. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Stokes, F. Joseph. l985. Divers and Snorkelers Guide to the Fishes and Sea Life of the Caribbean, Florida, Bahamas and Bermuda. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Publishers.
Magazines: Skin Diver
Rondale’s Scuba Diving
web sites: http://www.fishbase.org/search.cfm ( 25,000 species)
http://cichlidresearch.com/fish_html/allfish.html (new classifications of all fish)This project seems strange because it comes from the first biology database attempt in 1994 (which was built from the experimental development of a Hypercard program named “Picture This”created by Brendan Cheves in the New Media Center at CSULB). He automatically converted my first use of his new program to the web in 1995. We called it “Marina Tropica” then. In October, 2000, Dr. Chris Lowe (Shark Biologist in the Department of Biological Sciences at CSULB) kindly accepted me as a volunteer to rebuild that marine species database. Much of the old is still in this new version because Michael Twitty (UNIX System Analyst at CSULB) was able to rescue and reconvert 70% of it (in 2001). Webmaser Doug Cox and Director of New Media Center Walter Gajewski helped with technical problems. I can now access it, make corrections, add and replace my poor photos and hope to add new species or same species fish from those of volunteers. One purpose is to show different fish of the same species in different environments, areas, times, activities and views.
Kathleen Conrey #1. Blue Chromis
#1. Cobia
#2. Gray Snapper
#2. Large eye Toadfish
#3. Porcupinefish
#4. Porcupinefish
#6. Queen Angelfish
#2. Red Hind
#5. Redband Parrotfish#2. Redtail Parrotfish
#1. Saucereye Porgy
#3. Scrawled Cowfish
#2. Spanish Hogfish
#7. Spotfin Butterflyfish
#1. Spotted Scorpionfish
#2. Spotted Trunkfish
#8. Stoplight Parrotfish
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