Sea Shells of Southern Africa
By addebook • Apr 24th, 2009 • Category: Biology
Sea Shells of Southern Africa
by: Richard Kilburn
Sea Shells of Southern Africa
By Richard Kilburn
Publisher: Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
Number Of Pages: 249
Publication Date: 1982-10
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0869540947
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780869540947
Wikipedia says :
Conchology is the scientific, semi-scientific, or amateur study of mollusk shells (in the UK spelled mollusc shells). In other words, it is the study of the exoskeletons of animals in the phylum Mollusca. (The term “conchology” is however used by some, especially in Europe, to mean the same thing as malacology: the study of mollusks in general, not just their shells.)
In its narrower sense, meaning the study of mollusk shells, conchology does not only include the study of marine mollusks (see seashells), but also the study of the shells of land and freshwater mollusks. As well as studying the shell, in some gastropods, the operculum, where present, is also studied.
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