Fauna of Medicinal Animals in China is the first comprehensive and systematic monograph on medicinal animals in China, with two volumes. The first volume (published in 1979) mainly collects medicinal animals in northern China; The second volume (published in 1983) mainly collects the medicinal animals in the vast areas south of the Qinling Mountains and the southeast coast, and supplements the northern medicinal animals omitted in the first volume; The two volumes * * * contain 832 species of medicinal animals. Each animal is described according to its morphology, ecological data, geographical distribution, feeding, chemical composition, pharmacological action, application of medicinal materials, etc. There are 935 attached drawings, including more than 80 color pictures. At the end of the book are the Chinese names of animals and Latin learning.