Jordan is right. With several much "newer" books on the market one may
easily forget that Warmke & Abbott's classic work remains a good source for
identifying the smaller molluscs.
Other works that should be recommended, I believe, are:

Abbott, R. T., 1958 The Marine Mollusks of Grand Cayman, British West
Indies. Acad. Nat.Sci. Phil. Monograph 11 (good, but far from complete;
there is also a 1967 reprint)

Abbott, R. T., 1974 American Seashells. 2nd edition. Van Nostrand Reinhold,
New York, NY, etc. (unfortunately very scarce)

Altena, C. O. van Regteren, 1966-1975. Marine Mollusca from Suriname. (three
parts; the second on bivalves, the third on gastropods)

Andrews, J., 1971 Seashells of the Texas Coast. University of Texas Press.
Austin, TX (there are also paperback editions, with fewer of the smaller
species figured)

Diaz, J. M. [Merlano] & M. P. Puyana Hegedus, 1995 [1994] Moluscas del
Caribe Colombiano. Un catálogo ilustrado. Fundación Natura Invemar (many
illustrations taken from other sources)

Humfrey, M., 1975 Sea shells of the West Indies. A guide to the marine
molluscs of the Caribbean. Over 650 shells illustrated in colour. Collins,
London (the smallest species not included)

Leal, J. H., 1991 Marine prosobranch gastropods from oceanic islands off
Brazil.
Backhuys/U.B.S., Oegstgeest (especially on rarer deeper water species)

Olsson A. A. & A. Harbison, 1953 Pliocene Mollusca of southern Florida with
special references to those from north St. Petersburg. The Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Monographs - number 8. (mainly on
Plio/Pleistocene species, but many still living today; scarce but there are
two reprints)

Olsson, A. A. & P. L. McGinty, 1958 Recent marine mollusks from the
Caribbean coast of Panama with the description of some new genera and
species. Bull. Amer. Paleont. 34 (177) (especially good on vitrinellids and
pyramidellids)

Rios, E. C., 1985 Seashells of Brazil. Fundação cidade do Rio Grande, Rio
Grande, RS. (many illustrations taken from other sources; there are earlier
editions, variously titled)

Usticke, G. W. Nowell, 1959 A check list of the marine shells of St. Croix
U. S. Virgin Islands with random annotations. The Lane Press. Burlington,
VT. (beware of wacky nomenclature)

The book by De Jong & Coomans, mentioned earlier, is especially recommended
because, as stated in the introduction"[it] is based on the well-known
publication 'Caribbean Saeshells' by Warmke & Abbott; its data are not
repeated...but a large number of mainly small species were added". Also the
nomenclature is more up to date.

Marien Faber
www.mollus.nl


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From: Jordan Star
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Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: Carribean micros


Hello
A good source for micro ID is; Caribbean Seashells by Abbott & Warmke?
There is a new book but I don't know the name, author, or if it is good for
micros.
J.Star