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UK Seashells - Book list

The following is a list of books that I have found useful in the study of UK marine shells

Those in bold are those I consider essential for serious identification purposes

Those in red are those I consider particularly suitable for beginners
Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas - most up-to-date listing of all British marine species

Abbott, RT. 1991. Seashells of the northern hemisphere. Gallery

Allen, JA. 1962. The Fauna of the Clyde sea area. Molusca. Scottish Marine Biological Association

Angel, H. 1975. Seashore life on sandy beaches. Jarrold

Barrett, J. 1958. Collins pocket guide to the seashore. Collins

Bassindale, R. 1957. Dale Fort marine fauna.

Beedham, GE. 1972. Identification of the British mollusca. Hulton Educational Publications

Cambell, AC. 1976. Seashore & shallow seas of Britain & Europe. Hamlyn

Christensen, JM. 1980. Seashells. Bivalves of the British and Northern European seas. Penguin

Cox, I. 1957. Scallop. Studies of a shell & its influences on mankind. Shell Transport & Trading Co.

Dance, SP. 1977. Encyclopedia of shells. Blandford

Dance, SP. 1976. Shell collector's guide. David & Charles

Dance, SP. 1992. Shells. Dorling Kindersley

Duncan, FM. 1943. British shells. King Penguin

Eisenberg, JM. 1981. Collector's guide to seashells of the world. Mcgraw-Hill

Ellis, AE. 1979. Key to British slugs. Conchological Society No.12

Evans, IO. 1962. Observer's book of sea and seashore. Frederick Warne

Fitter, R. 1984. Seashore. Collins

Furneaux, WS. 1911. Sea shore. Longmans

Graham, Alastair. 1988. Molluscs: Prosobranch and Pyramidellid Gastropods. Linnean Society

Hardy, A. 1970. Open sea. Its natural history. 1. The world of plankton. Collins

Hayward, P. J. 1988. Animals on seaweed. Richmond

Hayward, P. J. & Ryland, J. S. 1995. Handbook of the Marine Fauna of North-West Europe. Oxford University Press

Hayward, P. 1996. Sea shore of Britain & Northern Europe. Collins pocket guide. Harpercollins

Jones, A. M. & Baxter, J. M. 1987. Molluscs: Caudofoveata, Solenogastres, Polyplacophora and Scaphopoda. Linnean Society

Kerney, MP. 1979. Land snails of Britain & North-West Europe. Harpercollins

Laverack, MS. 1974. Fauna and flora of St. Andrews Bay. Scottish Academic Press

Llewellyn Jones, J. 1972. British littoral mollusca. Conchological Society No.14

Macan, TT. 1960. Key to the British fresh- & brackish-water gastropods. Freshwater Biological Association

Matthews, G. 1967. Identification of British chitons. Conchological Society No.9

McKay, David & Smith, Shelagh M. 1979. Marine Mollusca of East Scotland. Royal Scottish Museum

Mcmillan, Nora. 1968. British shells. Warne

Mcmillan, Nora. 1977. Observer's book of seashells of the British Isles. Warne

Palmer, CP. 1979. Introduction to the scaphopoda. Conchological Society No.17

Palmer, CP. 1985. Introduction to the cephalopoda. Conchological Society No.19

Poppe, Guido T. & Goto, Yoshihiro. 1991-3. European seashells. Verlag Christa Hemmen

Phillips, R. 1987. Photographic guide to identify seashells & seaweeds. Elm Tree Books

Sabelli, B. 1982. Macdonald encyclopedia of shells. Macdonald

Seaward, DR. 1993. Additions & amendments to the distribution of the marine molluscs.... Joint Nature Conservation Commi

Seaward, DR. 1990. Distribution of the marine molluscs of North West Europe. Nature Coservancy Council

Seaward, Dennis R. 1982. Sea Area Atlas of the marine Molluscs od Britain and Ireland. Conchological Society / Nature Conservancy Council

Smith, Shelagh M & Heppell, David. 1991. Checklist of British Marine Mollusca. National Museums of Scotland

Smith, S. 1996. Conchological society of Great Britain & Ireland excursion to the Oban area. Scottish Natural Heritage

Smith, S. M. 1981. How to collect marine mollusca (including so-called rare species. Conchological Society No.18

Smith, S. M. 1974. Key to the British marine gastropoda. Royal Scottish Museum

Step, E. 1945. Shell life. An introduction to the British mollusca. Frederick Warne

Sykes, ER. . Marine mollusca of Dorset.

Tebble, Norman. 1966. British Bivalve Seashells. British Museum (Natural History)

Thompson, T. E. 1988. Molluscs: Benthic Opisthobranchs. Linnean Society

Turk, SM. 1978. Annotated key to the British species of Cardiidae. Conchological Society No.16

Turk, SM. 1969. Collecting British marine molluscs. Conchological Society No.11

Turk, SM. 1980. Guide to selected literature on British mollusca. Conchological Society No.7

Turk, SM. 1971. Seashore life in Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly. D. Bradford Barton

Winckworth, R. 1932. British marine mollusca. Journal Of Conchology

Woodward, SP. 1851. Manual of the mollusca or Rudimentary treatise on recent & fossil shells. John Weale

Yonge, CM. 1976. Living marine molluscs. Collins

Yonge, CM. 1949. Seashore. Collins