Over 1000 photographs of coral reef animals taken in their natural habitat. This volume concentrates on Pacific waters only. The geographical area of the "Asia Pacific Reef Guide" therefore includes Malaysia and Indonesia in the south, the Gulf of Thailand and the Vietnamese and Chinese coasts in the west, and in the north all islands of tropical/subtropical Japanese waters in the East China Sea. It includes pictures and information about bony fishes, crustaceans, mussels, snails, cephalopods, hydrozoans, corals, anemones, flat and segmented worms, sea urchins, squirts and sponges.