AuthorBeedham, G.E.
Year1972
TitleIdentification of the British Mollusca
ISBN0 7175 0593 6
SeriesHulton Group Keys
TypeBook/Report
How CompleteA selection of the common British species and representatives of rarer groups.
SourceHulton Group Keys, 236pp, Hulton Educational Publications Ltd.
IllustrationsLine 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 PreparationIdentification is mainly from shells. The bivalve key is much easier to use than Tebble’s.

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identificationCurrentMOLLUSCAslugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugsAnimalia
For identificationCurrentPATELLIDAElimpetsAnimalia
For identification, Line drawings of distal genital ducts as used to distinguish this group.CurrentArion ater agg.black slugs, orange slugsAnimalia: Pulmonata: Arionidae
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