Coral fauna of Taiping Island (Itu Aba Island) in the Spratlys of the South China Sea / Chan-Feng Dai and Tung-Yung Fan -- First observations on the fish communitites of fringing reefs in the region of Maumere (Flores-Indonesia) / Michel Kulbicki -- Grouper density and diversity at two sites in the Republic of Maldives / Robert K. Sluka and Norman Reichenbach -- Effect of typhoons on the lizard community of a shelf atoll / Michael James McCoid -- Flowering and fruiting in the flora of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia / R.W. Rogers -- Namu Atoll revisited: a follow-up study of 25 years of resource use / Nancy J. Pollock -- Crustacea Decapoda of French Polynesia (Astacidea, Palinuridea, Anomura, Brachyura) / Joseph Poupin.