Texas Seashells
A Field Guide
Will be published approx. on 30. November 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-62349-167-3 (ISBN)
Description
Walking along the beach and picking up seashells is a favorite pastime enjoyed by millions of people every year. This field guide covers three hundred of the better-known or more common seashells found on Texas coastlines, and anyone interested in identifying and collecting shells along Texas bays and Gulf coast beaches will find Texas Seashells an essential companion.
With more than 600 detailed and data-rich color photographs, each species with at least two views, Texas Seashells is sure to make shell identification fun, quick, and easy.
Those new to collecting can get started with the introductory chapters on building your shell collection, local laws and regulations protecting this resource, seashell clubs, adopting a "Sheller's Creed," and basic seashell taxonomy. A glossary is also included for technical terms not defined in the text.
Although this field guide is for seashells found along the Texas coast, it will also be useful in other regions of the Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic Ocean.
With more than 600 detailed and data-rich color photographs, each species with at least two views, Texas Seashells is sure to make shell identification fun, quick, and easy.
Those new to collecting can get started with the introductory chapters on building your shell collection, local laws and regulations protecting this resource, seashell clubs, adopting a "Sheller's Creed," and basic seashell taxonomy. A glossary is also included for technical terms not defined in the text.
Although this field guide is for seashells found along the Texas coast, it will also be useful in other regions of the Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic Ocean.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
College Station
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
302 colour plates, table
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62349-167-3 (9781623491673)
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Persons
John W. Tunnell Jr. is associate director and endowed chair of biodiversity and conservation science at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, USA, and regents' professor, Fulbright scholar, and retired professor of biology at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA.
Noe C. Barrera is a malacologist and microphotographer at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, USA.
Fabio Moretzsohn is an assistant research scientist in systematics and conservation of marine invertebrates at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, USA.
Noe C. Barrera is a malacologist and microphotographer at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, USA.
Fabio Moretzsohn is an assistant research scientist in systematics and conservation of marine invertebrates at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, USA.