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Author : J. A. Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Cone Shells of the World written by J. A. Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. A. Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Cone Shells of the World written by J. A. Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerry G. Walls
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1011 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Cone Shells written by Jerry G. Walls and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1011 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John K.. Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984714025
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Illustrated Catalog of the Living Cone Shells written by John K.. Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations and descriptive information on all living marine mollusks in the families Conidae and Conolithidae along with their taxonomic placement
Author : Eric Monnier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783939767923
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book A Taxonomic Iconography of Living Conidae written by Eric Monnier and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan J. Kohn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140085301X
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Conus of the Southeastern United States and Caribbean written by Alan J. Kohn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conus is the largest genus of animals in the sea, occurring throughout the world's tropical and subtropical oceans and contributing significantly to marine biodiversity. The shells of these marine mollusks are prized for their amazing variety and extraordinary beauty. The neurotoxic venoms they produce—injected by a hollow, harpoon-like tooth into prey animals that are then paralyzed and swallowed whole—have a range of pharmaceutical applications, from painkillers to antidepressants. This beautifully illustrated book identifies 53 valid species of the southeastern United States and the Caribbean, a region that supports a diverse but taxonomically challenging group of Conus. Introductory chapters cover the evolution and phylogeny of the genus, and notes on methodology are provided. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, taxonomy, distribution, ecology, toxicology, life history, and evolutionary relationships. The book includes more than 2,100 photos of shells on 109 splendid color plates; more than 100 additional photos, many depicting live animals in color; and 35 color distribution maps. Identifies 53 valid species—the first reassessment of western Atlantic Conus in more than seventy years Features more than 2,100 photos of shells on 109 color plates Blends the traditional shell-character approach to identification with cutting-edge shell and radular tooth morphometrics and molecular genetic analyses Includes color images of live animals as well as color distribution maps
Author : Helen Scales
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472911377
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Spirals in Time written by Helen Scales and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautifully written story of shells and their makers, and our relationships with them. Seashells are the sculpted homes of a remarkable group of animals: the molluscs. These are some of the most ancient and successful animals on the planet. But watch out. Some molluscs can kill you if you eat them. Some will kill you if you stand too close. That hasn't stopped people using shells in many ways over thousands of years. They became the first jewelry and oldest currencies; they've been used as potent symbols of sex and death, prestige and war, not to mention a nutritious (and tasty) source of food. Spirals in Time is an exuberant aquatic romp, revealing amazing tales of these undersea marvels. Helen Scales leads us on a journey into their realm, as she goes in search of everything from snails that 'fly' underwater on tiny wings to octopuses accused of stealing shells and giant mussels with golden beards that were supposedly the source of Jason's golden fleece, and learns how shells have been exchanged for human lives, tapped for mind-bending drugs and inspired advances in medical technology. Weaving through these stories are the remarkable animals that build them, creatures with fascinating tales to tell, a myriad of spiralling shells following just a few simple rules of mathematics and evolution. Shells are also bellwethers of our impact on the natural world. Some species have been overfished, others poisoned by polluted seas; perhaps most worryingly of all, molluscs are expected to fall victim to ocean acidification, a side-effect of climate change that may soon cause shells to simply melt away. But rather than dwelling on what we risk losing, Spirals in Time urges you to ponder how seashells can reconnect us with nature, and heal the rift between ourselves and the living world.
Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439190054
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Shell Collector written by Anthony Doerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this astonishingly assured, exquisitely crafted debut collection, Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival, charting a vast and varied emotional landscape. Like the best storytellers, Doerr explores the human condition in all its manifestations: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts. Most dazzling is Doerr's gift for conjuring nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of his characters contend with tremendous hardship; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to the mysteries of their respective landscapes.
Author : Cynthia Barnett
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393651452
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans written by Cynthia Barnett and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Science Friday Best Science Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year A Tampa Bay Times Best Book of the Year A stunning history of seashells and the animals that make them that "will have you marveling at nature…Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation" (John Williams, New York Times Book Review). Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature’s creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas. In The Sound of the Sea, acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the mollusks that make them. Spiraling out from the great cities of shell that once rose in North America to the warming waters of the Maldives and the slave castles of Ghana, Barnett has created an unforgettable history of our world through an examination of the unassuming seashell. She begins with their childhood wonder, unwinds surprising histories like the origin of Shell Oil as a family business importing exotic shells, and charts what shells and the soft animals that build them are telling scientists about our warming, acidifying seas. From the eerie calls of early shell trumpets to the evolutionary miracle of spines and spires and the modern science of carbon capture inspired by shell, Barnett circles to her central point of listening to nature’s wisdom—and acting on what seashells have to say about taking care of each other and our world.
Author : John K. Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984714018
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The cone shells of Florida written by John K. Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: identification guide to marine mollusks in the families Conidae and Conolithidae found in Florida including description of one new species
Author : M.G. Harasewych
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617705X
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Book of Shells written by M.G. Harasewych and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who among us hasn’t marveled at the diversity and beauty of shells? Or picked one up, held it to our ear, and then gazed in wonder at its shape and hue? Many a lifelong shell collector has cut teeth (and toes) on the beaches of the Jersey Shore, the Outer Banks, or the coasts of Sanibel Island. Some have even dived to the depths of the ocean. But most of us are not familiar with the biological origin of shells, their role in explaining evolutionary history, and the incredible variety of forms in which they come. Shells are the external skeletons of mollusks, an ancient and diverse phylum of invertebrates that are in the earliest fossil record of multicellular life over 500 million years ago. There are over 100,000 kinds of recorded mollusks, and some estimate that there are over amillion more that have yet to be discovered. Some breathe air, others live in fresh water, but most live in the ocean. They range in size from a grain of sand to a beach ball and in weight from a few grams to several hundred pounds. And in this lavishly illustrated volume, they finally get their full due. The Book of Shells offers a visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most intriguing mollusk shells, each chosen to convey the range of shapes and sizes that occur across a range of species. Each shell is reproduced here at its actual size, in full color, and is accompanied by an explanation of the shell’s range, distribution, abundance, habitat, and operculum—the piece that protects the mollusk when it’s in the shell. Brief scientific and historical accounts of each shell and related species include fun-filled facts and anecdotes that broaden its portrait. The Matchless Cone, for instance, or Conus cedonulli, was one of the rarest shells collected during the eighteenth century. So much so, in fact, that a specimen in 1796 was sold for more than six times as much as a painting by Vermeer at the same auction. But since the advent of scuba diving, this shell has become far more accessible to collectors—though not without certain risks. Some species of Conus produce venom that has caused more than thirty known human deaths. The Zebra Nerite, the Heart Cockle, the Indian Babylon, the Junonia, the Atlantic Thorny Oyster—shells from habitats spanning the poles and the tropics, from the highest mountains to the ocean’s deepest recesses, are all on display in this definitive work.
Author : R. Tucker Abbott
Publisher : Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466862424
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Seashells of the World written by R. Tucker Abbott and published by Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook is best viewed on a color device. Seashells of the World is an introduction to the world of marine seashells, emphasizing the most attractive and best-known species. This guide will help you to: -Identify -Classify -Understand the beautiful shells you see and collect No other animals are so widely collected, traded, or bought and sold because of their beauty and rarity.
Author : Jerry G. Walls
Publisher : TFH Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1036 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Cone Shells written by Jerry G. Walls and published by TFH Publications. This book was released on 1979 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Tucker Abbott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781582381251
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Seashells of North America written by R. Tucker Abbott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-04-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a pictorial guide to marine mollusks, providing descriptions for native varieties and important introduced species.
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Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761471721
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Aquatic Life of the World written by and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2001 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines every major aquatic organism as well as lesser-known and rare life-forms including water-dwelling plants and animals and the algae and bacteria that constitute the first links in the food chain.
Author : Kim C. Hutsell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965901727
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Registry of World Record Size Shells written by Kim C. Hutsell and published by . This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andreia Salvador
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226819817
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Fascinating Shells written by Andreia Salvador and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Scientist Best Book of the Year Beautiful photographs of stunning shells from London's Natural History Museum, home to one of the most significant and comprehensive collections in the world. Collected and treasured for their beauty, used in religious rituals, or even traded as currency, shells have fascinated humans for millennia. Ancient and enchanting, dazzling in form and variety, these beautiful objects come from mollusks, one of the most diverse groups in the animal kingdom, including snails, oysters, cuttlefish, and chitons. Soft-bodied, these creatures rely on shells for protection from enemies and their environments, from snowy mountains to arid deserts, in deep-sea hydrothermal vents and the jungles of the tropics, on rocky shores, and in coral reefs. In this book, mollusk expert Andreia Salvador profiles some of the world’s most beautiful and quirky shells, each selected from the more than eight million specimens held in the collection at London’s Natural History Museum. We lock eyes with the hundred-eyed cowry, named after "the all-seeing one," the giant Argus Panoptes of Greek mythology. We see how shells' appearances translate into defense strategies, as with the zigzag nerite, which varies its patterning to deceive and confuse predators. And we meet shell inhabitants, such as the amber snail, which eats earthworms by sucking them up like spaghetti. Reproduced in full color and striking detail, these shells have much to reveal about the history of collecting, the science of taxonomy, and the human desire to understand the natural world.
