American Seashells: The Marine Molluska of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America

by R. Tucker Abbott

American Seashells; The Marine Molluska of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0442202288
• ISBN13: 9780442202286
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
• Length: 663 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

American Seashells, a classic

R. Tucker Abbott wrote two editions of the American Seashells. The first one is good, the second vastly better; that is much more comprehensive. This volume has been out-of-print for years. It is still the standard with some exceptions. If you need to identify west coast marine bivalves, then Coan, Valentich-Scott, and Bernard's "Bivalve Seashells of Western North America (2000: Alaska to Baja)is the standard. A similar work, by a different author, is in preparation for marine gastropods. Last word was that it would be three volumes. Despite these works, Abbott, 1974 is still the the book to have.

This is THE definitive book on both Pacific and Atlantic

If you have any serious interest in shells or mollusks, get this book. The second edition, published in 1974, is much better than the first. It is chock-full of excellent identifying information, as well as micro-environmental preferences of each animal. Kudos, Dr. Abbott!