AuthorStep, E.
Year1945
TitleShell Life - an introduction to the British Mollusca
SeriesWayside and Woodland
TypeBook/Report
How Complete650 of the 750 species known at the time in the British Islands, on land, in freshwater or in adjacent seas.
SourceWayside and Woodland, 443pp, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.
IllustrationsColour 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)

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
CurrentMOLLUSCAslugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugsAnimalia
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