
Carrier Shells - Garbage Collectors of the Oceans
A Portrait of the Gastropod Family Xenophoridae
ConchBooks (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 11. October 2023
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-3-948603-41-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a portrait of the Gastropod family Xenophoridae: marine snails with the peculiar behaviour of attaching foreign objects to their shells. Their name is derived from Greek Xenos = foreign and phoros = carrier.
Carrier shells have inhabited the sea floors of tropical and subtropical oceans for eons, recycling empty shells of molluscs, as wel as pieces of dead corals, stones, sunken wood, coal, and even teeth shed by sharks. Only very recently, broken glass, coins, bottle caps, can openers, and pieces of plastic appeared in their environments; things produced and dumped in the sea by man.
Carrier shells have inhabited the sea floors of tropical and subtropical oceans for eons, recycling empty shells of molluscs, as wel as pieces of dead corals, stones, sunken wood, coal, and even teeth shed by sharks. Only very recently, broken glass, coins, bottle caps, can openers, and pieces of plastic appeared in their environments; things produced and dumped in the sea by man.
More details
Series
Edition
Erstauflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Polen
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Biologen, Zoologen, Malakologen
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Dimensions
Height: 27.5 cm
Width: 19.5 cm
Weight
608 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-948603-41-0 (9783948603410)
Schweitzer Classification