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South African Shells: A Collectors Guide
This comprehensive field guide will be as valuable to the casual beachcomber as to the serious collector, for it identifies 527 South African shells, illustrated by full colour photographs and almost every one shown life size. Included are all the shells you are most likely to find along the South African coastline plus a number of rare species to spur on the enthusiast.
In addition to the excellent colour photographs which provide a clear visual aid to identification, the book also contains:
· a full description of every species
· its geographical range
· the current scientific name
· useful introduction to the molluscs and to molluscan biology
· information on where and how to collect shells
· practical section on cleaning and cataloguing your shells
· coastal reference map
· list of further reading
· full glossary and index
By: Deirdre Richards
Publisher: Struik Publishers, 1984
Pages: 98 plus 60 colour plates
Dimensions: ± 21 cm x 11 cm
Softcover. Good condition. Ex-Library stamp on first page.
