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Although marine mollusks have been capturing the attention and admiration of the general public for many years, the equally diverse and fascinating world of air-breathing, terrestrial shells has largely been ignored by amateur naturalists and private shell collectors. There are over 30,000 species of landshells, representing about 85 families. There is scarcely a place on the dry surface of the world, outside of the polar regions, where one cannot find at least a few examples of land snails. Since Aristotle's time and the days of the ancient Romans, land mollusks have been a focus of man's attention. They have served as food, are major agricultural pests, are hosts to parasitic diseases of humans and domestic animals, offer clues in the studies of archaeology, evolution and geologic history, and often have been the treasured objects of shell collectors. Their lack of popularity among today's amateur conchologists is perhaps due to the absence of a modern, understandable guide to the large and more colorful species. It is also true that many smaller species cannot be identified without special internal anatomical studies. Yet, today, one third of the mollusk research literature deal

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Author

R. Tucker Abbott, Ph.D.

Publisher

American Malacologists, Incorporated

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780915826230

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Stem

Rating

4.8 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14