Author | Pfleger, V. | |||
Year | 1998 | |||
Title | A Field Guide in Colour to Molluscs | |||
ISBN | 1 85605 449 7 | |||
Type | Book/Report | |||
How Complete | About 150 of the 1500 European land and freshwater gastropods (including slugs) and bivalves | |||
Source | English edition edition, 216pp, Blitz | |||
Illustrations | Right-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:
| |||
Examine | in the Hand ( with x8 or x10 hand lens is also useful) |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
---|---|---|---|---|
For identification | Current | MOLLUSCA | slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs | Animalia |
For identification | Current | MOLLUSCA | slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs | Animalia |
For identification, Freshwater species | Current | BIVALVIA | bivalves | Animalia |
For identification, Terrestrial and freshwater species | Current | PROSOBRANCHIA | operculate molluscs | Animalia |
For identification | Current | PULMONATA | slugs and snails | Animalia |
Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioInfo website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.