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Great British Marine Animals (3rd Edition)
| Paul Naylor. 2011
This book looks at the wonderful diversity of animals that live in the British seas. They are colourful, beautiful and have an amazing range of intriguing lifestyles.
Great British Marine Animals uses high quality underwater photographs to both aid identification of a wide range of common animals, and to give an insight into their lives. It is written for anyone who loves the sea, wildlife or exploring our coast.
Highly recommended to all with an interest in our native marine life.
Includes £5.50 Postage & Packing
Price: £21.50 |
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Seasearch Guide to Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland
| Francis Bunker, Juliet Brodie, Christine Maggs, Anne Bunker 2010.
British and Irish shallow seas contain an astonishing 7% of the world's seaweed species, around 700 different seaweeds, and yet most divers, snorkellers and rockpoolers can put names to only a handful of them. This guide aims to de-mystify seaweed identification for the non-specialist. It includes over 200 seaweeds, all of which can be identified in the field, but you may need a hand lens for some of them!
Includes £2.40 Postage & Packaging
Price: £16.90 |
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Seasearch Guide to Sea Anemones & Corals of Britain & Ireland
| Chris Wood 2005.
The cool temperate waters around Britain & Ireland contain a huge variety of marine life and the sea anemones and corals, the Anthozoa, are some of the brightest and most attractive of all the groups of animal that live in them. Anemones and corals can be found from rockpools to the deepest depths and in all habitats from rocky reefs to soft mud. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive guide to all 77 of the sea anemones and corals found in British and Irish inshore waters. It will be an essential companion for divers, rockpoolers and students who want to identify the sea anemones and corals they find and know more about them. The book is illustrated by over 200 underwater colour photographs.
Produced as part of the Seasearch project which aims to get volunteer divers to record marine life and habitats.
Includes £2 Postage & Packaging.
Price: £11.95 |
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Seasearch Observer's Guide to Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
| Chris Wood 2007.
This lavishly illustrated book aims to introduce divers and snorkellers to a selection of the animals and plants from sponges to fishes and sea squirts to seaweeds, that are most regularly seen in our waters. It contains over 200 species, each illustrated by a photograph taken underwater, and includes pointers on how to recognise many more. In addition to a description there is information on depth, habitat and distribution all essential to a confident identification. The Guide is especially aimed at divers looking for a good all round introduction to the animals and plants they will see on their dives. If you only buy one marine life identification guide this is the one you should choose!
Includes £2.50 Postage & Packaging
Price: £12.50 |
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A Field Guide to Marine Fishes of Wales and Adjacent Waters
| By Paul Kay & Frances Dipper
With 256 pages and numerous photographs supported by drawings, we believe this book to be the most comprehensive photographic guide to Marine Fish currently published in the UK. Published for the Marine Conservation Society with support from the Countryside Council for Wales.
Includes Free Postage & Packaging
Price: £19.95 |
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The Species Directory CD
| The CD-Rom is a definitive list of the Marine Fauna and Flora of the British Isles and Surrounding Seas. Edited by Christine Howson and Bernard Picton.
An essential reference source for ecologists and taxonomists alike; it assembles all the disparate lists of British and Irish marine species, incorporating all recent literature and taxonomic revisions, as well as individual records. It also provides a standard nomenclature as far as is currently feasible. Each chapter covers a different phylum and comprises a short introduction, an outline classification and list of species with authority, date, a unique number and brief notes along with appropriate synonymy. The CD-Rom contains a searchable version in Adobe Acrobat format; a cross-linked set of html files which form a series of web pages; photographs and descriptions of some of the species listed and database files in Microsoft Access and plain text format for import into relational databases.
1999 edition.
Free Postage & Packaging
Price: £15.00 |
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Marine Fauna and Flora of the Cullercoats District
| This 2-volume account of the fauna and flora of the North East Coast of England and adjacent sea will delight all marine biologists and provide baseline data for those interested in biodiversity and its conservation. Observations of the 18th and 19th Century naturalists who studied the district are combined with recent records and revised systematics. One of the most important collections of marine species records in Europe.
2000 Edition, Hard Cover, B&W Illustrations
Free Postage & Packaging
Price: £95.00 |
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