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) |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
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Current | MOLLUSCA | slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs | Animalia |
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