The Seashells Of Tasmania

This field guide has comprehensive and authoritative coverage of all species likely to be encountered on the Tasmanian shore. The colour photographs illustrate the commonest 350 species. The facing text describes these and a further 100 species. The author Dr Simon Grove is a professional conservation biologist with a lifelong passion for seashells, marine life and natural history-and a shell collection to match.

How often has a casual stroll along a Tasmanian beach resulted in a pocketful of shells that you wish you knew more about? How many species of cowrie have you got sitting in that jar of holiday treasures? How different are winkles and whelks, scallops and oysters, cockles and mussels? Are all those limpets on the rocks the same species? Is that screw-shell native? Are all abalones the same? What shell species went into making that necklace? This book will help you find out - and much more besides.¿Tailored for Tasmania, but relevant for all of southern Australia¿Comprehensive and authoritative coverage of all species over 10 mm in length that are likely to be encountered on the shore¿Illustrates the most frequent 364 species, and covers a further 80¿Accessible and attractive format¿Ideal companion for beachcombers, naturalists and biologists¿Perfect for the shack, holiday-home or guest-house

Excerpt from A Monograph of the Land Shells of Tasmania Describe several new species, but I have been careful not to name a shell unless it presented constant characters by which its specific distinction is well marked, and by which it may be recognised by conchologists. I consider the correcting of one error far more praiseworthy than the creating of many new species without good reason and careful investiga tion. I quite agree with the learned botanist Sir J. D. Hooker, that the naturalist who has the true interests of science at heart, not only feels that the thrusting of an uncalled-for synonym into the nomenclature of science is an exposure of his own ignorance, and deserves censure but that a wider range of knowledge and a greater depth of study are required to prove these dissimilar forms to be identical, which any superficial observer can separate by words and a name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.