| Author | Step, E. |
| Year | 1945 |
| Title | Shell Life - an introduction to the British Mollusca |
| Series | Wayside and Woodland |
| Type | Book/Report |
| How Complete | 650 of the 750 species known at the time in the British Islands, on land, in freshwater or in adjacent seas. |
| Source | Wayside and Woodland, 443pp, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. |
| Illustrations | Colour and half-tone illustrations |
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | Unlike many works on "shells" this book is as much about the animal and what it does for a living as about the shell itself. It remains a good introduction to the sheer variety of molluscs found in Britain, particularly in the sea, but the taxonomy is inevitably very dated. |
| Examine |  in the Hand ( with x8 or x10 hand lens is also useful) |
