The coral bibliography includes literature published between 1758 and 2002 on all aspects of extant corals (scleractinia as well as octocorallia and hydrozoa with a calcified skeleton; e.g. includes species of Millepora, Heliopora and Tubipora). The database encompasses 9,232 literary references on biology, morpholoy, variation, taxonomy, distribution, settlement, recruitment, calcification, chemical processes, evolution, ecology, coral associates, palaeontologic comparisons, including dissertations, theses and abstracts.