The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study, Collection, and PreservationCharles F. Sturm, Timothy A. Pearce, Ángel Valdés 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. |
Contents
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Snorkeling and SCUBA Diving | 41 |
Archival and Curatorial Methods | 45 |
Flatbed Scanners and Digital Cameras | 59 |
Applied Film Photography in Systematic Malacology | 73 |
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 | 147 |
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 | 217 |
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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