Fishes: Greater Caribbean for Android

11 things about Fishes: Greater Caribbean

1. • A page for each species includes a detailed description (with information on its form, color, size, habitat and depth range), 1 or more species images (primarily photographs), key-features that distinguish it from similar species, a link to a page displaying similar species, and a map of its regional range.

2. • New for this version: option to work with either the entire fauna or a diver subgroup; 94 more species and almost 50% more images; habitat added to the fish ID search engine.

3. Users can select to work with either the entire fauna, or with the Diver Group, a subset of 919 species that could be found within SCUBA diving depths on or adjacent to reefs in different parts of the region.

4. This App is the second of a set of 2 portable identification guides for Apple touch-screen devices that will cover the shore-fish faunas of the tropical American marine regions on both sides of the central American Isthmus: the Tropical Eastern Pacific, the Greater Caribbean (Caribbean and adjacent areas).

5. • Browse among alphabetic lists of species and species-within-families, changing name-sorting between scientific and common (first or last) names.

6. • A search engine uses any combination of generic common names, location, habitat, and fish features (shape, color pattern and colors) to identify fishes.

7. • The notebook module allows (1) review of recently visited species pages and (2) construction of lists that record observations about fishes.

8. • A glossary of scientific terms is linked to each species page.

9. • Covers 1,693 species, with over 8,200 images to help identify them.

10. • The iPad version includes glossary images, and high resolution range maps with dots indicating site records.

11. An identification guide for the shore-fish fauna of the Caribbean and adjacent areas.