Nauru is one of the smallest countries in the world, consisting of just a single island a few miles wide near the Equator in the Pacific Ocean. It is surrounded by coral reefs made up of reef-building coral species, many of which are difficult to identify even by experts. This field guide to nearly 50 species of the most common corals on Nauru provides a resource for coral reef scientists, managers, monitoring teams, and anyone else interested in learning about reef-building corals. Corals are presented in the conventional taxonomic order, because it puts corals that are morphologically similar together, which facilitates learning to distinguish them. A few modifications of that order have been introduced to help put similar looking species closer together. This guide presently has 48 coral species in 19 genera.
