Close up of girdle and valve sculpture. Note the snake-skin like appearance of the girdle and black pigmented spots on the valve surface
People who record molluscs or have shell collections are sometimes worried about the risk that they may unintentionally break the law - and the laws are getting more complicated.
The aim of this survey is to accrue modern records for th
“Snail” by Peter Williams.
Reaktion Books, 2009 ISBN 978-1-86189-528-8 167pp, paperback. £9.99
Mollusc World Issue 23, page 28.
There are many books which provide an introduction to molluscs,
“Shells” by A.J. Dezallier d’Argenville.
Taschen 2009 ISBN978-3-8365-1111-7 216pp A4 Hardback. £24.99
Mollusc World Issue 23, page 27.
The “Conchyliologie” of d’Argenville is one of
What are your areas of interest?: Non-marine molluscs and tertiary fossils
While looking through some early issues of our magazine’s predecessor, The Conchologists’ Newsletter, I came across some autobiographical notes written by two very eminent concho