The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study, Collection, and Preservation

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Charles F. Sturm, Timothy A. Pearce, Ángel Valdés
Universal-Publishers, 2006 - Nature - 445 pages
Mollusks have been important to humans since our earliest days. Initially, when humans were primarily interested in what they could eat or use, mollusks were important as food, ornaments, and materials for tools. Over the centuries, as human knowledge branched out and individuals started to study the world around them, mollusks were important subjects for learning how things worked. In this volume, the editors and contributors have brought together a broad range of topics within the field of malacology. It is our expectation that these topics will be of interest and use to amateur and professional malacologists.

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The Tusk Shells
229
Cephalopoda
239
Freshwater Gastropoda
251
Terrestrial Gastropoda
261
Bremerton WA Daniel L Geiger
272
Rearing Terrestrial Gastropoda
287
Marine Gastropoda
295
Freshwater Mussels
313

Computerizing Shell Collections
101
Illinois Natural History Survey
107
Arthur E Bogan Champaign IL
114
Curator of Aquatic Invertebrates Robert T Dillon
124
Geographic and Taxonomic Works 10 Taxonomy and Taxonomic Writing A Primer 147 111
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A Primer
161
Organizations Meetings and Malacology
173
Museums and Malacology
181
Donating Amateur Collections to Museums
189
Fossil Mollusks
197
Thomas A Burch MD Charleston
199
Aplacophora
207
Monoplacophora 18 Polyplacophora 217
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NonUnionoid Freshwater Bivalvia
327
Institute of Zoology and Zoological Museum
336
Marine Bivalvia
339
A Research Tool
349
An Introduction to Shellforming Marine Organisms
359
Conservation and Extinction of the Freshwater Molluscan Fauna of North America
373
Issues in Marine Conservation
385
Appendices
417
Morphological Features of Gastropod and Bivalve Pelecypod Shells
418
Expanded Table of Contents
427
Glossary
441
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