Reef Fishes of the East Indies is a new forthcoming book which will be a hefty publication on reef fish from Gerald Allen and Mark Erdmann. With almost 1,300 pages spread across three volumes, Reef Fishes of the East Indies will cover over 2,600 species of reef fish from the Andaman Sea to the Solomon Islands. Better yet, it is expected that Allen & Erdmann will include 25 new species in the ultra-mega fish book although we don’t know if these will be the original description of the said new species.
Look out for the Reef Fishes of the East Indies in June of this year where it will cost a whopping $250, on the same level as Corals of the World and probably the same level of must-have for diehard reef fish enthusiasts.
Update: Here is a list of all the new species which will be in the new book:
- Acentrogobius cenderawasih
- Amblyglyphidodon flavopurpureus
- Amblyglyphidodon silolona
- Aspasmichthys alorensis
- Cirrhilabrus humanni
- Forcipiger wanai
- Grallenia baliensis
- Iniistius naevus
- Lepadichthys akiko
- Neoglyphidodon mitratus
- Ostorhinchus tricinctus
- Parapercis bimacula
- Parapercis sagma
- Pentapodus komodoensis
- Pseudanthias mica
- Pseudocoris petila
- Pseudochromis tigrinus
- Ptereleotris caeruleomarginata
- Ptereleotris rubristigma
- Pteropsaron longipinnis
- Scorpaenodes bathycolus
- Tomiyamichthys gomezi
- Tomiyamichthys nudus
- Tryssogobius sarah
- Vanderhorstia wayag
