PLEASE NOTE:
The thumbnails on each of the main Field ID pages
ARE LINKS! Behind each thumbnail are more pictures of the
critter in question. This is not just a larger version of the
thumbnail, for most critters there are many larger pictures
of the critter behind the thumbnail.
Resources:
FISH:
- Coastal Fish Identification, California
to Alaska, by Paul Humann
- Pacific Coast Inshore Fishes, by Daniel W. Gotshall (4th Edition just out)
- Probably More than You Want to Know
about the Fishes of the Pacific Coast,
by Milton Love (2nd Edition)
- Guide to the Coastal Marine Fishes
of California, California Fish Bulletin No. 157, put out years ago by the Dept. of Fish &
Game and the Sea Grant Program.
- Sharks and Rays of the Pacific Coast, by Ava Ferguson and Gregor Cailliet
NUDIBRANCHS:
- Pacific Coast Nudibranchs, by David W. Behrens (2nd Edition)
OTHER INVERTEBRATES:
- Guide to Marine Invertebrates, Alaska
to Baja California, by Daniel
W. Gotshall
- Pacific Coast Pelagic Invertebrates,
A Guide to the Common Gelatinous Animals,
by David Wrobel & Claudia Mills
- Pacific Coast Crabs and Shrimps, by Gregory C. Jensen
- Octopus and Squid, James C. Hunt
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES USED BY PETER
BRUEGGEMAN:
- Common intertidal invertebrates
of southern California. Richard
K. Allen. Palo Alto, Calif. : Peek Publications, 1977
- Intertidal invertebrates of California. Robert H. Morris, Donald P. Abbott, and Eugene
Haderlie. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1980
- Light's manual : intertidal invertebrates
of the central California coast.
Ralph I. Smith and James T. Carlton. Berkeley : University of
California Press, 1975
- The living corals (Scleractinia)
of southern California. John
C. Bythell. San Diego Society of Natural History Occasional Paper
16. San Diego : San Diego Society of Natural History, 1986.
- Taxonomic atlas of the benthic fauna
of the Santa Maria Basin and western Santa Barbara Channel. James A. Blake & Andrew L. Lissner, eds.
Camarillo, Calif. : US Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Management
Service, Pacific OCS Region, 1993-2000
Images from Mike Miller are used with
permission from his website, The Slugsite
Images from Garry McCarthy are used
with permission from his website, Underwater Images
Images from Clinton Bauder are used
with permission from his website, Metridium