Reference texts for coral morphology and taxonomy?

[Lingwendil]

Hey there guys. For the majority of my life I've been really into marine biology, with a specific interest in invertebrates primarily. I've been reading hobbyist level books as far back as I can remember, and really wish there was more readily accessible technical literature out there regarding coral morphology, and biology. Other than citations for research papers, older reefcentral online articles, and similar, there doesn't seem to really be a "master work" of sorts for any particular groups of corals that I'm able to find. Does anybody know of something that is less hobbyist oriented, and more like a marine bio textbook as far as content here? Some sort of scholarly type reference is really what I want for this. Something I can place on the shelf and pull out to dig through, without having to hop online and drudge through forum posts or wikipedia...

 

[jack_aubry]

for just simple id http://www.russellkelley.info/print/indo-pacific-coral-finder/
not really a text book info but as a field key it's the best i have seen

 

[reefwiser]

You can not get it in book form any more but Corals of the World is what you are looking for.

http://www.coralsoftheworld.org/page/home/

I have it plus all the supplements.
Of coarse signed too. [emoji3][emoji106]