Book to ID shells

[bb]

I inherited a large collect of rare shells from the 1950's.
Is there a book that would be easiest to use in IDing
them.

[david touitou]

Hello,

The last book published to my memory is :
Encyclopedia of Marine Gastropods

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Bye
DAVID

[david touitou]

Hello,

The last book published to my memory is :
Encyclopedia of Marine Gastropods

<a href="http://www.nhbs.com/encyclopedia_of_marine_gastropods_tefno_159393.html" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nhbs.com/encyclopedia_of_marine_gastropods_tefno_159393.html">http://www.nhbs.com/encyclopedia_of_mar ... 59393.html</a><!-- m --></a>

<a href="http://www.conchbooks.de/shop/index.html?target=p_595.html&lang=en-us" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.conchbooks.de/shop/index.html?target=p_595.html&lang=en-us">http://www.conchbooks.de/shop/index.htm ... lang=en-us</a><!-- m --></a>

Bye
DAVID

[dave r]

This is a good book with excellent plates but does not give the distribution of any of the species illustrated, only where the figured specimen is from. This is the only downside but a pretty big one. If you have a shell that comes close to matching a picture but comes from a different area it makes identification tricky. I can't understand why he did not at least give the region i.e. Indo-Pacific etc.
If you can find a second hand copy, as it is out of print, Dance and Abbot's 'Compendium of Seashells' is one of the best, or failing that Eddie Hardy's website 'gastropods.com' is a very good identification tool.
Dave

[dave r]

Just out of curiosity, if you have not identified them how do you know they are rare?
Dave

[nabiel]

yes.. that is a good question. I also confuse. because I also have some sea shell and difficult to find in internet, may be mine is rare too?
who know  <img src="images/smiley/clap.gif" alt="" border="0" />

[pichest]

You may trade (exchange) some of your shells with my book: Encyclopedia of Marine Gastropod. Email me if you interested.