Dear Doug,

I am a specialist with cone shells and turrids.  I have a copy of
Robin's book and found it quite helpful when trying to identify groups
that I do not work on.  My main quibble is that the index is not the
best.  There are no family or generic taxa indexed only species names.
This means that you have to know the name of the taxon inorder to oook
it up.  The book does have many smaller gastropods included.  However,
this is  good thing to me.  Most gastropods are small.  I would suggest
that the book is a good thing to have in any malacological library.  The
books price I think is reasonable considering the quality of the binding
and the heavy paper.

Yours,


John

On 7/25/2011 5:49 AM, Doug Stemke wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> I have acquired a pretty decent library of books over the years.  I am
> considering the Robin book but I hear mixed things about it, mostly that
> there is a lack of info with the book.  At $120 it isn't cheap. So where
> does this book excel if you compare it to large texts like Compendium and
> the Abbott 1974 American Shells? What areas does the book expand into,
> mostly miniature species?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Doug
>
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