P Wirtz & H Debelius 2003

Mediterranean and Atlantic Invertebrate Guide

Conch-Books, Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-62-7. €40. Hardcover 15.5 x 23.5 cm, 308 pp.

A comprehensive guide for divers, snorklers, beach combers, aquarists, marine biologists, nature lovers. Covers the entire coasts of Europe and North Africa and the archipelagos of the North East Atlantic (Azores, Madeira, Canaries, Cape Verde). >1000 colour photographs The molluscs cover on 86 pages.

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GUNTHER H.W. Sterba 2003

Olividae: Fibel der Schalen

ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-00-005660-2. 167 pp, 62 colour plates, spiral bound. In German. € 60.

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Michael Schrodl 2003

Sea Slugs of Southern South America

Systematics, biogeography and biology of Chilean and Magellanic Nudipleura (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia)
165pp, 100 (63 colour) figs, brochure, 17 x 24 cm

A brief monograph of all 65 nudibranch and pleurobranch species known from the temperate waters of Peru, Chile and Argentina. Nominal species from that area are critically revised. Most species are illustrated by photographs of living specimens and/or museum and type material; with a field identification key. Recent geographical distributions are analysed, and novel hypotheses on historical biogeography and evolution of the nudipleuran fauna of the Southern Ocean are presented.

Order by Email: inf...@conchbooks.de, Fax +49(0)671-8963942, phone +49(0)671-66441 or –68664, or ConchBooks, K & C Groh, Mainzer Str. 25, D55546 Hackenheim, Germany

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Joshi, R, Baucas, N, Joshi, E & Verzola, E 2003

Scientific Information Database on Golden Apple Snail (Pomacea spp.). CD-ROM.

ISBN 971-92558-7-0 Price 500 Philippine Pesos or 50 US$.

The golden apple snail (GAS) CD-ROM provides quick and easy access to about three decades of literature on ecology, damage, management options and utilization. GAS is an alien invasive pest of rice, taro and other plants grown in aquatic environments. It includes over 400 articles, and over 100 images. The information is sourced from experts around the world. This CD-ROM is designed as a reference tool or a resource package for agricultural technicians, researchers, advisers, students and for those engaged in GAS research, extension and training. All the software needed is supplied on the disc. The information is easily accessed through Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on this CD-ROM is searchable by author, title, and year of publication, journal title, and keywords.
To order, contact Ms Salome Ledesma, President, Agricultural Librarians Association of the Philippines (ALAP), University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Main Library, College, Laguna 4031, Philippines: omec...@yahoo.com; ejo...@philrice.gov.ph

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T Nakayama 2003

A Review of Northwest Pacific Epitoniids (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae)

A4, viii + 143 pp, 20 colour plates. Monographs of marine mollusca No 6. Backhuys Publ., Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5782-118-4. € 58.

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D. O. Alexeyev 2003

Gastropod seashells of Russia

VNIRO Publ., Moscow. Also from alex...@vniro.ru

Bilingual. 184 pp text + 67 colour plates.

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Hans Meinhardt 2003

The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells

3rd Ed, 236 + xi pp, 107 colour illustr. With CD-ROM. Hardcover. ISBN 3-540-44010-0. £38-50.

Springer-Verlag Virtual Laboratory Series.

The patterns of tropical hells are both compellingly beautiful and records of biological development. An analysis of the dynamic processes retraced in computer simulations.

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A A Schileyko

Treatise on Recent terrestrial Pulmonate molluscs

Supplement 2, Ruthenica. (14 parts planned; back issues available)

Part 10 (April 2003) Ariophantidae, Ostracolethidae, Ryssotidae, Milacidae, Dyakiidae, Staffordiidae, Gastrodontidae, Zonitidae, Daudebardiidae, Parmacellidae.

Part 11 (November 2003) Trigonochlamydidae, Papillodermidae, Vitrinidae, Limacidae, Bielziidae, Agriolimacidae, Boettgerillidae, Camaeidae.

Information and orders: D L Ivanov, ivan...@zmmu.msu.ru