This guide to shells is designed to make identification of the different varieties as simple and accurate as possible.
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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very reliable handbook.,
By J. Connor "film and book fanatic'." (Palm Desert, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Smithsonian Handbooks: Shells (Paperback)
This handbook on shells is very reliable in the field or in a studio. Dozens of mollusks, crustaceans, and other exotic shell collectibles are listed here, turning out at more than two hundred species listings! However, most featured here are east coast species or found way out of the United States, which makes it not as reliable for an American beachcoming in Santa Barbara or Baja California. For those living out on the east coast or in the Caribbean, this is an excellent and very reliable resource. Also quite fun to read as a coffee table or easy chair book.There is a catch however, as the book is bound in low quality paperback. May show wear more quickly than Audubon leatherback guides or Peterson solid lamination and paper. Best for a landlocked ocean lover wanting to take an extraordinary look at the seas marvels and shell collectibles at a nearby store.
34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
An ok beginner collector book,
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This review is from: Smithsonian Handbooks: Shells (Paperback)
All collectors become well aware of the two most famous shell book authors as they enter a journey into this hobby; R Tucker Abbott and Peter Dance. Dance has written this book as a general shell book of world wide shells, more to promote interest than being a particularly useful field identification guide. There are at last count, somewhere around 80,000 members of the mollusks; clearly any shell book has to take that into account and only the more popular species are going to be present.What Dance has is some representaive members of the more popular species the casual collector is likely to find or purchase. While I like the clean photographs I find the ranges that are listed for the different species are a bit too general. But again, this is a book to get one started in the hobby. While getting very long in the tooth, don't overlook Abbotts Golden Guide of seahells for the beginner. It is a surpringly good intro book as long as you don't take the relative abundance of species listed too seriously (In other words don't put a morgage down on a Glory-of-the-Seas you'll likely be making a poor investment!). A much better general shell book once you've found you really can't id all your worldwide shells is the Abbott/Dance Compendium of Seashells. It helps ID well over 4,000 species. Otherwise use regional guides of which there are numerous examples such as Seashells of North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Abbott).
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Seashell Guide,
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This is a wonderful book and very informative. It has a photo on each page of each shell along with each description of the name, what countries they come from, where in the water or in sand you find them or how deep in the sea they come from, the size they grow and how commonly found are they. I think this book is for anyone really. Weather you're beginning a collection, or collecting for a while. Serious about collecting(like me) or just like to look at interresting and beautiful shells.Rehana(Chicago, IL)
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Seashells delight all of us. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
spiral riblets, corneous operculum, inflated body whorl, elongate body whorl, broad siphonal canal, low spiral ribs, large body whorl, straight siphonal canal, whorl angled, vertical growth lines, outer lip white, smooth columella, swollen body whorl, shouldered body whorl, shallow suture, strong spiral ribs, columellar callus, convex body whorl, columella white, spire whorls, thickened outer lip, impressed suture, strong vertical ribs, early whorls, long siphonal canal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Range Tropical Indo-Pacific Occurrence, Africa Occurrence, Family Conidae Species Conus, Range Japan, Range Mediterranean, United States, Mediterranean Occurrence, Range Indian Ocean, Range Gulf of California, Brazil Occurrence, Indies Occurrence, Family Cypraeidae Species Cypraea, Range New Zealand Occurrence, Family Olividae, Range Philippines, Australia Occurrence, Peru Occurrence, Ecuador Occurrence, Range Norway, Family Fasciolariidae Species, Europe Occurrence, Family Strombidae, Family Trochidae, Taiwan Occurrence, Family Terebridae Species Terebra Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Seashells delight all of us. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
spiral riblets, corneous operculum, inflated body whorl, elongate body whorl, broad siphonal canal, low spiral ribs, large body whorl, straight siphonal canal, whorl angled, vertical growth lines, outer lip white, smooth columella, swollen body whorl, shouldered body whorl, shallow suture, strong spiral ribs, columellar callus, convex body whorl, columella white, spire whorls, thickened outer lip, impressed suture, strong vertical ribs, early whorls, long siphonal canal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Range Tropical Indo-Pacific Occurrence, Africa Occurrence, Family Conidae Species Conus, Range Japan, Range Mediterranean, United States, Mediterranean Occurrence, Range Indian Ocean, Range Gulf of California, Brazil Occurrence, Indies Occurrence, Family Cypraeidae Species Cypraea, Range New Zealand Occurrence, Family Olividae, Range Philippines, Australia Occurrence, Peru Occurrence, Ecuador Occurrence, Range Norway, Family Fasciolariidae Species, Europe Occurrence, Family Strombidae, Family Trochidae, Taiwan Occurrence, Family Terebridae Species Terebra Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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