>The shells themselves are very beautiful and intriguing to me, but I find
>myself more and more interested about the animal that lived inside of
>them...There are many books on the shells...but does anyone know of a book
>that pictures and tells about the animals that lived in the shells
>themselves???


Neville Coleman 2003 "2002 Sea Shells: Catalogue of Indo-Pacific Mollusca
www.nevillecoleman.com.au
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This is a 144pp paperback, set out rather in "Compendium" style, with
many hundreds of good-quality images of living marine molluscs from
New Zealand, Australia, Japan-Micronesia, Seychelles-Maldives,
Indonesia-Malaysia, Philippines-Solomons and general SW Pacific. I
bought my copy from Naturama in Italy, cost ¤45.00 (rather expensive,
but you won't find a better book of living molluscs).  The taxonomy
isn't the best, but that's to be expected. There is little but the
most basic text; the pictures speak for themselves.

Okutani's 2000 work "Marine Mollusks in Japan" also has quite a few
images of living animals, but this is an expensive book.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
‚ Opinions stated are mine, not those of Otago University
"There is water at the bottom of the ocean"  - Talking Heads

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