Author | Beedham, G.E. |
Year | 1972 |
Title | Identification of the British Mollusca |
ISBN | 0 7175 0593 6 |
Series | Hulton Group Keys |
Type | Book/Report |
How Complete | A selection of the common British species and representatives of rarer groups. |
Source | Hulton Group Keys, 236pp, Hulton Educational Publications Ltd. |
Illustrations | Line drawings accompany the text. The preface claims colour photographs but my copy does not have any apart from three bivalves on the front cover. |
Review (by Malcolm Storey) | A guide to common British molluscs. Descriptions on left-hand page, line drawings to the right. Keys to Marine Gastropoda, Freshwater and Brackish-water Gastropoda, Terrestrial Gastropoda, Marine Bivalvia, and Freshwater Bivalvia. Other smaller groups are covered in the text. Most useful for the sea-shore fauna, as the terrestrial and freshwater molluscs are better covered elsewhere, although it does include dissection drawings to help distinguish the Arion ater complex. |
Examine | in the Hand ( with x8 or x10 hand lens is also useful) |
Specimen Preparation | Identification is mainly from shells. The bivalve key is much easier to use than Tebble’s. |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
---|---|---|---|---|
For identification | Current | MOLLUSCA | slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs | Animalia |
For identification | Current | PATELLIDAE | limpets | Animalia |
For identification, Line drawings of distal genital ducts as used to distinguish this group. | Current | Arion ater agg. | black slugs, orange slugs | Animalia: Pulmonata: Arionidae |
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