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RECORD NUMBER: 3 OF 5| Main Title | Seashells of North America : a guide to field identification / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Abbott, R. Tucker | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Golden Press, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 1968 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 00000791 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 0307636577; 9780307636577; 0307136574; 9780307136572 | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Mollusks--North America--Pictorial works ; Shells--Identification ; Mollusca ; Conchas (zoologia) ; AmâErica Do Norte ; Mollusques--Amérique du Nord--Ouvrages illustrš | |||||||||||
| Additional Subjects | Mollusks--North America--Pictorial works | |||||||||||
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| Collation | 280 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm | |||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-271). |
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| Contents Notes | A guide to field identification. How to use this book -- What is a mollusk? -- Major groups of mollusks -- Evolutionary history -- Reproduction -- Development -- Growth -- Sexuality -- Egg protection -- Shell structure and pigmentation -- Feeding -- Locomotion -- Nervous system and sense organs -- Commensalism and parasitism -- Marine communities -- Environmental niches -- Dispersal and abundance -- Introduced species. Marine faunal provinces -- Guide to collecting areas -- Collecting mollusks -- Cleaning and preserving -- Shell collection -- Studying and observing mollusks -- Marine aquariums for mollusks -- Nomenclature and classification -- Identification -- Class Gastropoda -- Class Amphineura -- Class Scaphopoda -- Class Pelecypoda -- Class cephalapoda. |