Octocoral Finder - BYO Guides - NEW 2025
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Octocoral Finder - BYO Guides - 2025
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Author: Russell Kelley
Finally, a practical, easy-to-use guide to Indo Pacific soft corals, sea fans, whips and pens. The Octocoral Finder delivers genus level ID with the same ease-to-use made famous by the Coral Finder. Enjoy.
Over 1150 images illustrating 78 tropical Indo Pacific reef associated octocoral genera. 182 pages.Innovative user friendly visual search & plain language design. Reflects recent advances in molecular taxonomy. Designed for non specialist use by field workers, students, scientists, aquarists, conservation professionals & naturalists. Not for underwater use!
WHAT IS IT?
The world's first easy-to-use, searchable smartguide for octocoral ID (soft corals, sea fans, whips & pens), that anyone can use.
WHAT DOES IT DO
Lets the untrained user identify octocorals to genus level, regardless of growth form, in the Indian & Pacific oceans. The Octocoral Finder's visually driven design eliminates most of the ugly terminology from the ID process.
HOW DOES IT WORK
Choose the shape, texture or lifestyle that matches your octocoral from the Key Page. Then consult the relevant pages of the Visual Index using your eye-brain visual supercomputer
Glossary
The Octocoral Finder takes the confusion out of learning coral identification with a simplified glossary of terms. Culled from the hundreds in use by professional taxonomists the Coral Finder only tells what you need to know to get the job done.
Reverse engineering
So you have a coral that doesn’t quite fit what you see on your Look-Alike page. Crisis? What crisis? Just use the genus index to track it down among the Coral Finder’s other growth forms. It’s called reverse engineering, you can do it underwater, and we don’t mind a bit!
ID
The Octocoral Finder makes coral identification practical and easy by using WYSIWYLF – What You See Is What You Look For! Instead of memorising thousands of images and names in your head you just look up the shape and the Coral Finder gives you a simple matrix of best bets to choose from. Simple – just the way we like it.
Links
The Octocoral Finder provides a direct link from the coral you see underwater to the best choices to follow up in Corals of the World.
©2025 - Author: Russell Kelley - Publisher: BYO Guides
BYO GUIDE CORAL FINDERS (for HARD CORALS (hexacoral) - ARE ALSO AVAILABLE
