Dr. Burgess's Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes - More than 4000 photos in Full Color - Dr. Warren E. Burgess / Dr. Herbert R Axelrod - 1988 - Hardcover - T.F.H. Publications Inc.

Here is a new marine fish book a truly beautiful and immensely colorful new book that satisfies the long-existing need for a comprehensive identification guide to marine fishes. This book shows IN FULL COLOR not only the popular aquarium fishes but also the oddballs and weirdos, the large seaquarium type fishes, both warmwater and coldwater fishes, as well as both foreign and domestic fishes. In short, this book has it all, and has it in a format that will provide maximum utility to the readers the fishes are grouped family by family in phylogenetic order sharks and rays first, puffers and boxfishes last.
The photos were taken predominantly by world-class fish photographers. Most photos are 8 to the page but some of the most beautiful of marine fishes are represented in FULL-PAGE, FULL COLOR splendor.
Not only does this book supply photos provided with the most up-to-date scientific names, but the captions indicate the family, range, size, and optimum aquarium conditions as well. Also included in this book are family by family write-ups on the aquarium care of these fishes.