Contents -- A word from the partners -- Foreword by John E. Randall -- Foreword by Jean-Claude Quéro -- Introduction -- Habitats -- Visual quick-find of fishes -- Visual approach to families and groups -- Description of groups -- Sharks -- Rays -- Morays, snake eels, conger eels and garden eels -- Catfishes -- Lizardfishes, flatheads and dragonet -- Small pelagic fishes -- Anglerfishes and frogfishes -- Soldierfishes and squirrelfishes -- Bigeyes and bulleyes -- Unclassified species -- Trumpetfishes, cornetfishes and shrimpfishes -- Seahorses, pipefishes, ghost pipefishes and sea moths -- Scorpionfishes and lionfishes -- Stonefishes -- Anthias -- Groupers -- Soapfishes -- Dottybacks -- Hawkfishes -- Cardinalfishes -- Jacks and trevallies -- Snappers -- Fusiliers -- Sweetlips and grunts -- Seabreams -- Emperor and large-eyed bream -- Coral breams -- Goatfishes -- Chubs -- Spadefishes and batfishes -- Butterflyfishes -- Angelfishes -- Damselfishes, clownfishes and anemonefishes -- Barracudas -- Fingerfins and marblefishes -- Wrasses, Hogfishes, Coris -- Parrotfishes -- Sandperches and sand divers -- Combtooth blennies -- Dartfishes -- Gobies -- Surgeonfishes and unicornfishes -- Rabbitfishes -- Tuna and other large pelagic fishes -- Flounders and soles -- Triggerfishes and filefishes -- Boxfishes -- Puffers and porcupinefishes -- References and recommended reading -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Index of scientific names -- Index of French names -- Index of English names.