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Learn about the many kids of tropical seashells with this useful and portable reference book. This handy pocket guide introduces 170 mollusk species found in Southeast Asia. These fascinating shelled animals vary greatly in shape and size, with equally diverse behaviors. As a quick reference to those families of mollusks most frequently encountered, together with the informative text and delightful color photographs for easy identification, this book is a "must" for beachcombers and underwater enthusiasts. Periplus Handy Pocket Guides are practical field guides, useful for identifying various natural objects ranging from plants and animals to gemstones and seashells. Each page of each title throughout the series is filled with clear, precise photographs and informative text. Scientific and local language names are given.

Biologists contend that a rough triangle drawn from the Philippines to the western tip of New Guinea to the island of Bali and back encloses the richest concentration of coral reef species in the world. Into the very center of this teeming diversity of marine life - more than 3,000 species of fish, an amazing 75 genera of reef-building corals - reaches the crooked arm of Sulawesi's northern peninsula. With its rugged coastline and odd tangle of peninsulas, the Indonesian island of Sulawesi looks itself like a rare sea creature washed ashore. The island, famous in colonial days as The Celebes, harbors a remarkable variety of marine habitats. In the warm waters along the tip of North Sulawesi, which splits the Sulawesi and Maluku Seas, all of these habitats can be found in close proximity. Here is where photographer Mike Severns and biologist Pauline Fiene-Severns have spent the last 7 years exploring. Here are creatures rare and common, elegant and ugly, and sometimes frankly bizarre. But all 150 full-color photographs and captions in Sulawesi Seas speak eloquently of the fragile and compelling beauty of Sulawesi's rich tropical waters.