REFERENCES
BOOKS & ARTICLES ON MARINE LIFE
& MARINE PARKS
General
The Blue Planet
Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill and Martha Holmes, BBC Worldwide, London 2001 A companion volume to the BBC TV series
Oceanography
Tom Garrison, Brooks/Cole – Thomson Learning, Belmont CA USA, 2005 Everything from the big bang to finding a job as a marine scientist
The Sea Around Us
Rachel Carson, first published 1950, OUP New York, 1951A classic and poetic evocation of the sea
Earlier books by Jacques Cousteau, Hans Hass and Australians Ron and Valerie Taylor and Benn Cropp are also of interest.
“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”
— Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us
Temperate Ocean Waters
Under Southern Seas
Neil Andrew (ed), University of New South Wales,
Sydney, 1999
Comprehensive, beautifully illustrated, addresses life cycles of marine organisms, a bit skewed towards commercially important species
Australian Marine Habitats in Temperate Waters
Graham J Edgar, Reed New Holland, Sydney 2001
Discusses the various marine ecosystems
Australian Marine Life
The Plants and Animals of Temperate Waters
Graham J Edgar, Reed Books, Melbourne 1997,
2nd ed 2008
The best guide to everything
Fishes & Marine Mammals
Sea Fishes of Southern Australia
Barry Hutchins and Roger Swainston, Swainston Publishing Willeton WA, 1986
Standard field guide in portable format, fishes illustrated with paintings
Coastal Fishes of South-Eastern Australia
Rudie Kuiter
Very comprehensive, several photos for each species
Sharks and Rays,
Leighton Taylor (ed)
Readers Digest, Sydney 1997;
A Field Guide to Crustaceans of Australian Waters,
Diana Jones and Gary Morgan, Reed New Holland, Sydney 1994; Mark Norman and Amanda Reid,
A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopuses
of Australasia
Collingwood, 2000;
James R Spotila,
Sea Turtles
John Hopkins, Baltimore, 2004;
The Presence of Whales
Frank Stewart, Alaska Northwest Books, 1995
