Of all the highly diverse groups of animals that occur on natural reefs, the echinoderms are some of the most unique but also the least represented in our home reef aquariums. We have a basic understanding of starfish, urchins, and sea cucumber biology, but their care requirements, especially the many unique and beautiful starfish is almost anyone’s guess.
If you think coral identification is hard, just try finding a decent book on starfish or echinoderms identification that isn’t either a totally stripped down kid’s book, or an academic tome that goes above the heads of all but the most research focused. There’s tons of specialty books on fish identification, sharks, corals, crustaceans, and even nudibranch have their photo-collectors who dive to document them all but for some reason the echinoderms really get the short end of the stick.
经过多年的搜索现场指南，该指南不包括echinoderm只是一张脚注，我们实际上已经找到了一本小型但信息密集的书，最终回答了我们关于echinoderm的许多渴望。热带印度太平洋的海星和其他棘皮动物is a new book authored by Andrey Ryanskiy that was just published this past summer and covers more than 450 species of various echinoderms.
The 90+ full color pages of this book clearly illustrate the whole spectrum of tropical echinoderms that you’re likely to encounter while diving, but it also helped us finally identify the little starfish we’ve long been calling ‘阿斯特琳娜‘ as belonging to their own genus calledAquilonastra图为至少七个不同的物种。铁匠只有25美元，有英语，法语，意大利语和德语，海星es and Other Echinodermsis an important addition which fill a big gap in our library of marine life and aquarium books. [Reef ID Books]
