ndo-Pacific fish, especially those living in the coral reefs of Southeast Asia, comprise the world's greatest variety of species. This book featuring more than 800 colored photographs provides divers, aquarists and tourists with a perfect overview of all the ocean fish encountered in the reefs and open waters off the islands and coastlines of Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. This is the most compact fish guide ever published that has been strictly illustrated with underwater photographs. Helmut Debelius was born in Frankenberg on the Eder in 1947 and currently reside in Frankfurt, Germany. Following his indoctrination in the Mediterranean some 30 years ago, he has been diving and photographing the world's oceans on a regular basis. His keen interest in marine taxonomy led him to publish numerous popular science articles and become a freelance collaborator with the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt. In the course of his countless diving expeditions, he discovered a number of previously unknown marine species that scientists have since named in his honor, such as the angelfish Centropyge debelius and the scarlet cleaner shrimp Lysmata debelius. Barnes & Noble