AuthorPfleger, V.
Year1998
TitleA Field Guide in Colour to Molluscs
ISBN1 85605 449 7
TypeBook/Report
How CompleteAbout 150 of the 1500 European land and freshwater gastropods (including slugs) and bivalves
SourceEnglish edition edition, 216pp, Blitz
IllustrationsRight-hand pages of colour photographs, line drawings of a few smaller species at the back.
Review (by Malcolm Storey)

Another of Blitz’s "cheap and cheerful" translations of European works. If only they’d keep them available for longer, even if it means charging a bit more!

The main text consists of species accounts (on the left) facing photographs (on the right) with one, two or three species per spread. The photographs, mostly of groups of shells, are generally good.

An extra section has been appended for the English edition. This contains the following chapters:

Additional species living in the British Isles - a selection of further species illustrated with line drawings.
Key for the identification of European mollusc families - using live specimens.
Key for the identification of British terrestrial species - using fresh shells. This key doesn’t go down to species in difficult groups like Succineidae and Vertigo.

Examine in the Hand ( with x8 or x10 hand lens is also useful)

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identificationCurrentMOLLUSCAslugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugsAnimalia
For identificationCurrentMOLLUSCAslugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugsAnimalia
For identification, Freshwater speciesCurrentBIVALVIAbivalvesAnimalia
For identification, Terrestrial and freshwater speciesCurrentPROSOBRANCHIAoperculate molluscsAnimalia
For identificationCurrentPULMONATAslugs and snailsAnimalia
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