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The Book of Shells: A Life-Size Guide to Identifying and Classifying Six Hundred Seashells de M. G. Harasewych

The Book of Shells: A Life-Size Guide to Identifying and Classifying Six Hundred Seashells: Life-Size Guides to the Best of Nature

Autor M. G. Harasewych, Fabio Moretzsohn
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iun 2010

Notăm cu interes apariția volumului The Book of Shells, o lucrare de referință semnată de M. G. Harasewych și Fabio Moretzsohn. Autorii, figuri proeminente în domeniul malacologiei, fundamentează acest ghid pe o cercetare riguroasă a filumului Mollusca, oferind o perspectivă științifică asupra scheletelor externe ale acestor nevertebrate vechi de peste 500 de milioane de ani. Subliniem rigoarea cu care cei doi cercetători au selectat cele 600 de specii pentru a ilustra diversitatea morfologică incredibilă a moluștelor.

Ne-a atras atenția elementul distinctiv al acestei ediții: fiecare cochilie este reprodusă la dimensiunea sa reală, în culori naturale, fiind însoțită de date precise despre habitat, distribuție și opercul. Această abordare vizuală transformă volumul dintr-un simplu catalog într-un instrument de identificare extrem de precis. Lucrarea acoperă o arie similară cu Shells de Giorgio Gabbi, dar se diferențiază printr-o structură mult mai tehnică și o organizare bazată pe filogenie, nu doar pe estetică.

Structura cărții facilitează o progresie logică, de la conceptele fundamentale despre ce este o moluscă, până la o cheie de identificare practică și indici detaliați (nume latine, nume comune și relații evolutive). Această organizare indică o acoperire exhaustivă a subiectului, transformând cele 656 de pagini într-o resursă esențială pentru studiul biodiversității marine. Tonul este unul precis, evitând speculațiile și concentrându-se pe fapte biologice și date istorice fascinante, precum valoarea de licitație a speciei Conus cedonulli în secolul al XVIII-lea.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226315775
ISBN-10: 0226315770
Pagini: 656
Ilustrații: 2400 color plates
Dimensiuni: 191 x 254 x 48 mm
Greutate: 2.24 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Life-Size Guides to the Best of Nature

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această lucrare colecționarilor și studenților la biologie marină care au nevoie de un instrument de identificare precis. Cititorul câștigă acces la o arhivă vizuală de 2400 de imagini color, beneficiind de expertiza unor cercetători de top. Motivul principal pentru achiziție este redarea cochiliilor la scară 1:1, ceea ce elimină erorile de percepție specifice ghidurilor clasice.

Despre autor

M. G. Harasewych este curator emerit la Departamentul de Zoologie a Nevertebratelor din cadrul National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, fiind un expert recunoscut la nivel mondial în sistematica și biogeografia gasteropodelor marine. Fabio Moretzsohn este cercetător la Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, specializat în biodiversitatea moluștelor. Împreună, cei doi autori combină decenii de cercetare academică și expediții pe teren pentru a oferi o lucrare care respectă standardele științifice ale University of Chicago Press.

Descriere scurtă

Who among us hasn’t marveled at the diversity and beauty of shells? Or picked one up, held it to our ear, and then gazed in wonder at its shape and hue? Many a lifelong shell collector has cut teeth (and toes) on the beaches of the Jersey Shore, the Outer Banks, or the coasts of Sanibel Island. Some have even dived to the depths of the ocean. But most of us are not familiar with the biological origin of shells, their role in explaining evolutionary history, and the incredible variety of forms in which they come.

Shells are the external skeletons of mollusks, an ancient and diverse phylum of invertebrates that are in the earliest fossil record of multicellular life over 500 million years ago. There are over 100,000 kinds of recorded mollusks, and some estimate that there are over amillion more that have yet to be discovered. Some breathe air, others live in fresh water, but most live in the ocean. They range in size from a grain of sand to a beach ball and in weight from a few grams to several hundred pounds. And in this lavishly illustrated volume, they finally get their full due.

The Book of Shells offers a visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most intriguing mollusk shells, each chosen to convey the range of shapes and sizes that occur across a range of species. Each shell is reproduced here at its actual size, in full color, and is accompanied by an explanation of the shell’s range, distribution, abundance, habitat, and operculum—the piece that protects the mollusk when it’s in the shell. Brief scientific and historical accounts of each shell and related species include fun-filled facts and anecdotes that broaden its portrait.

The Matchless Cone, for instance, or Conus cedonulli, was one of the rarest shells collected during the eighteenth century. So much so, in fact, that a specimen in 1796 was sold for more than six times as much as a painting by Vermeer at the same auction. But since the advent of scuba diving, this shell has become far more accessible to collectors—though not without certain risks. Some species of Conus produce venom that has caused more than thirty known human deaths.

The Zebra Nerite, the Heart Cockle, the Indian Babylon, the Junonia, the Atlantic Thorny Oyster—shells from habitats spanning the poles and the tropics, from the highest mountains to the ocean’s deepest recesses, are all on display in this definitive work.

Notă biografică

M. G. Harasewych is research zoologist and curator of marine mollusks at the Department of Invertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., which houses one of the world’s largest mollusk collections. He has discovered and described dozens of new genera and species, written widely for scientific journals and periodicals, and is the author of Shells: Jewels from theSea. Fabio Moretzsohn has a doctorate in zoology and is a researcher for the Harte Research Institute in Texas. He has discovered a few new species of mollusks and is a coauthor of the Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells.

Cuprins

Foreword
Introduction
What is a Mollusk?
What is a Shell?
Shell Collecting
Shell Identification Key
The Shells
Appendices
Glossary of Terms
Index of Species Aranged According to Evolutionary Relationships
Index of Common Names
Index of Latin Names
Acknowledgments

Recenzii

"How many different kinds of seashells are there? No one can say for sure. Tens of thousands of mollusks are known to science and there are certainly far, far more out there waiting to be discovered. So a book that describes 600 species is only scratching the surface. But what a surface! . . . Dr. Harasewych, curator of marine mollusks at the Smithsonian Institution and Dr. Moretzsohn, a researcher at the Harte Research Institute in Texas, offer detailed images, crisp descriptions and helpful information about things like mollusk family trees, guides to shells by geographical region and useful Web sites.”

"This time of year, the beach beckons. Instead of just lying around in a stupefied, sun-drenched drowse, however, why not turn those vacation hours at the seaside into a learning experience? The Book of Shells: A Life-Size Guide to Identifying and Classifying Six Hundred Seashells is a fascinating guide to the external skeletons of mollusks—also known as seashells—that routinely turn the ocean's fringe into a scattering of treasures. With this book in tow, you can, after an afternoon of shell-collecting, sit down and classify your finds. The Book of Shells includes full-color photos of hundreds of shells and a guide to each mollusk's stomping grounds. M.G. Harasewych and Fabio Moretzsohn, the zoologists who put together this jumbo joy—at 665 pages and a hard cover, you'll need two hands to lift it—have done a splendid job. The book is filled with scientific data but it will intrigue — not intimidate — those of us who are nonscientists. And these gorgeous shells with poetic names like Snowflake Marginella, Imperial Harp, Lettered Olive, Gaping Ancilla, Du Petit's Spindle, Rough-Ribbed Nerite and Reddish Callista have a delicate, almost unearthly beauty."—Chicago Tribune

"This encyclopedia of 600 seashells . . . is enough to inspire even the laziest beachcomber to rush out at low tide to find something beautiful."

"How many different kinds of seashells are there? No one can say for sure. Tens of thousands of mollusks are known to science and there are certainly far, far more out there waiting to be discovered. So a book that describes 600 species is only scratching the surface. But what a surface! . . . Dr. Harasewych, curator of marine mollusks at the Smithsonian Institution and Dr. Moretzsohn, a researcher at the Harte Research Institute in Texas, offer detailed images, crisp descriptions and helpful information about things like mollusk family trees, guides to shells by geographical region and useful Web sites.”