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Genre/Form: | Field guides |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Andrews, Jean, 1923- Sea shells of the Texas coast. Austin, University of Texas Press [1971] (OCoLC)656199193 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean Andrews |
ISBN: | 0292701373 9780292701373 |
OCLC Number: | 216624 |
Description: | xvii, 298 pages : illustrations, color frontispiece, maps ; 29 cm. |
Contents: | The Texas coast. Historical background ; Physical description -- General features of the mollusk -- Systematic descriptions. Class Amphineura ; Class Gastropoda ; Class Scaphopoda ; Class Bivalvia ; Class Cephalopoda -- A shell collecting trip -- Beachcombing. |
Series Title: | Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation series, no. 5. |
Responsibility: | by Jean Andrews ; shell photographs by Jean Bowers Gates. |
Abstract:
One of the most valuable portions of this work is the beautiful set of 369 mollusk photographs and the 65 line drawings that go with the text. One of the major problems in identifying Texas coastal sea shells has long been the lack of adequate illustrations. No single text can be used to identify all the shallow-water shells of Texas. The systematic portion of this book, however, does bring together all the information on coastal species, so that most amateur shell collectors will be able to identify their finds.
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by kj9191 updated 2011-08-07