During the author"s tennure as Director of Fisheries of Andaman and Nicobar Islands between 1981-84, he. was fascinated by the fraceful and soft colour of the submarine garden along the coastal waters of south Andaman, full of live corals of red, orange, purple colouration at Wandoor and Chiriatapu. As a head of the Department of Fisheries, he had a duty to check illegal querrying and smuggling of the coral fauna from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Smuggled dead and bleached corals were confiscated by the departmental staff, while embarking in ships and planers. The destruction of live corals pained him. This give him the initial impetus to know and write on corals. The present book, "Corals of Tropical Oceans" is an outcome of his well nurtured thoughts. In the book, attempt has been mede to start with the zoogeography of coral fauna by outlining their distribution in the world oceans, reef evolution and regional difference.Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Zoogeography of Coral FaunaChapter 3: ClassificationChapter 4: BiologyChapter 5: CompositionChapter 6: Reef FisheriesChapter 7: EcologyChapter 8: DynamicsChapter 9: HealthChapter 10: Crisis of Coral ReefsChapter 11: Medicine from Corals