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The market in Nha Trang sells many edible gastropods. Here you can see small babylonia, strombs, ceriths, and some freshwater species such as Faunus ater.

Edible molluscs for sale on the street in Nha Trang: Phalium glaucum, Trisidos semitorta and Perna viridis.

Simon prepares to dive near one of the islands off Nha Trang. The water here is noticeable cooler than in the Philippines, and a ‘shorty’ wetsuit is required.

A Vietnamese man cleans Cassis cornuta in Nha Trang, for the tourist trade.

Vietnamese women clean Cymbiola nobilis for sale to tourists in Nha Trang.

A Vietnamese woman wears the traditional bamboo hat (nón lá) as she cleans Harpa articularis.

A Vietnamese man polishes Trochus niloticus for the tourist trade and for craft work.

An unidentified butterfly (Lepidoptera sp.), Hà Tiên, Kiên Giang Province.

An unidentified moth (Lepidoptera sp.), Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa Province.

Larva of a bagworm moth (Psychidae sp.), Hà Tiên, Kiên Giang Province.

Larvae of the witch's hat bagworm moth (Pagodiella sp.), Hà Tiên, Kiên Giang Province. Family Psychidae.

An unidentified fly (Diptera sp.), Hà Tiên, Kiên Giang Province.

The nymph of an unidentified froghopper (Cercopoidea sp.), Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa Province.

An unidentified planthopper (Auchenorrhyncha sp.), Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa Province.

Narrow-winged damselfly (Coenagrionidae sp.), Hà Tiên, Kiên Giang Province.