All the information needed to collect and study shells is included in this comprehensive book, which provides the geographical range and habitat for and a detailed description of each of 800 species. Color plates show 780 species, including live animals, and 115 drawings show both animals and their shells.
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Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world's greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars. These editions include updated material by Michael O'Brien, Paul Lehman, Bill Thompson III, Michael DiGiorgio, Larry Rosche, and Jeffrey A. Gordon.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Guide for Shells!,
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This review is from: Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies (Paperback)
This fat book is a very good guide for shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, and the West Indies. It is full of information! You will find of each shell the following: name, range (where to be found), habitat, description, remarks (special notes to some cases).There is a very interesting introduction.
There are many pictures, in full color all of them. They are all in the middle of the book, not acompanying each description, as I expected. Anyway, it is a great guide, one that will help you very well with any information you need.
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Very intersesting with lots of details,
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This review is from: Field Guide to Shells of the Atlantic (Peterson Field Guides) (Paperback)
Lack of colored pictures. Very informative. Super guide for scuba divers and naturalists as well as shell collectors.
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My best guide to shells but not perfect,
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This review is from: Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies (Paperback)
My best and most thorough guide to shells but the black and white photos could use some updating, also because of the large range this book covers it might have been nice to have range maps for the individual species next to their name on the plate this would help narrow down between similar species without having to flip to the reference pages so frequently. I would have given this a 4/5 star rating but gave it a 5/5 because I felt the need to compensate for Daniel J. Knight's ridiculous review: "Evolution pseudo science babble"
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weak revolving lines, thin brownish periostracum, ecp water, short open canal, thin yellowish periostracum, revolving ridges, rounded vertical ribs, grayish periostracum, outer lip thickened, revolving ribs, color yellowish tan, operculum horny, revolving rows, weak concentric lines, sutures indistinct, inner margins crenulate, fine revolving lines, anterior end rounded, body whorl, yellowish brown periostracum, shouldered whorls, aperture oval, color yellowish gray, color yellowish white, flat whorls Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Indies, South Florida, Southeast Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Nova Scotia, Arctic Ocean, New Jersey, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, West Florida, Cape Cod, Florida Keys, New England, Rhode Island, Long Island, Family Veneridae, Clark of Melbourne, Atlantic Coast, Family Tellinidae, East Coast, South Carolina, Sanibel Island, Prince Edward Island, West Coast, Puget Sound Browse Sample Pages:
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weak revolving lines, thin brownish periostracum, ecp water, short open canal, thin yellowish periostracum, revolving ridges, rounded vertical ribs, grayish periostracum, outer lip thickened, revolving ribs, color yellowish tan, operculum horny, revolving rows, weak concentric lines, sutures indistinct, inner margins crenulate, fine revolving lines, anterior end rounded, body whorl, yellowish brown periostracum, shouldered whorls, aperture oval, color yellowish gray, color yellowish white, flat whorls Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Indies, South Florida, Southeast Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Nova Scotia, Arctic Ocean, New Jersey, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, West Florida, Cape Cod, Florida Keys, New England, Rhode Island, Long Island, Family Veneridae, Clark of Melbourne, Atlantic Coast, Family Tellinidae, East Coast, South Carolina, Sanibel Island, Prince Edward Island, West Coast, Puget Sound Browse Sample Pages:
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- A Field Guide to Coral Reefs: Caribbean and Florida (Peterson Field Guide) by Eugene H. Kaplan in Back Matter
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