New Publications

THE AUSTRALIAN SEAFOOD USERS MANUAL - MAKING THE MOST OF THE WORLD'S BEST (Yearsley, Onley & Brown, 2000) is an innovative new publication, produced by the Department of Primary Industries Queensland (DPI) with funding from the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC). It is designed to take the confusion out of buying and preparing seafood, profiling more than 60 species of Australian finfish and shellfish. The manual is extremely user-friendly and includes full colour photographs of seafood species, fillets and recipes. It features eight chapters (365 pages), encompassing species profiles (enabling identification), buying, quality and safety, storage, preparation, cooking, recipes and marketing. Available from Seafood Services Australia (http://www.ssaust.com or austinb@dpi.qld.gov.au).

ICHTHYOLOGY: RECENT RESEARCH ADVANCES. 1999. D.N. Saksena (ed.). This volume, a combined effort of many investigators, provides a comprehensive survey of the biology of fishes. It also includes recent studies in environmental changes affecting fishes. Science Publishers, Inc., PO Box 699, Enfield, NH, 03748 USA. http://www.scipub.net. ISBN 1-57808-053-3; 452 PP; $99.50/£65.00.

MICRONESIAN REEF FISHES. A comprehensive guide to the coral reef fishes of Micronesia. This all new expanded edition is a complete rewrite of the original with about 1,000 new photos: 522 pp., 1559 photos covering all 1,300 coral reef species (0-60m), appendix listing all 1,680 spp. of shorefishes (includes secondary freshwater, estuarine, deep reef (below 60 m), and epipelagic species) known from the region (hardcover). An abridged edition with text rewritten for easier use by non-ichthyologists is also available: Micronesian Reef Fishes: a field guide for divers and aquarists: 408 pp., 1559 photos covering 1192 spp. with text limited to the species featured in color (softcover). Both editions share the same color section. Comprehensive edition (hardcover) $74.95; Field Guide (softcover) $49.95; set of both $109.95. Postage/handling: U.S., Palau, FSM, Marshalls: Priority (air): $4.00/book; W. Europe, most of Pacific Rim: Priority (air): $10.00/book; surface $6.00/book; everywhere else: air $20.00/book; surface $6.00/book. CORAL GRAPHICS, P.O. Box 21153, GMF, Guam 96921 USA; ph.: (671) 734-1092 (call first to fax from ca. 1300-2200 GMT); E-mail: rmyers@netpci.com.

A NATURAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA by Tim M. Berra is available in North America from Academic Press and in Australia and New Zealand from University of New South Wales Press. This book covers the geography, geology, plants, invertebrates, Great Barrier Reef, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and Aboriginals of the island continent. It features over 200 color photographs, 220 line drawings, and 500 references.

PAEPKE, H.-J. 1999. BLOCH´S FISH COLLECTION IN THE MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE DER HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN - AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOG AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT. Theses Zoologicae vol. 32, 216 pp., 32 plates. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag K.G. Ruggell / Lichtenstein. Distributed by Koeltz Scientific Books, P. O. Box 1360, D-61453 Königstein / Germany. Phone: +49-6174-93720, Fax: +49-6174-937240, E-mail: koeltz@t-online.de, Internet: http://www.koeltz.com, ISBN 3-904144-16-2, price: 30.- US-Dollar.