On iNaturalist I am talking to a student from Pakistan who is currently attempting to 
learn to identify the various species of ark shells, Arcidae, which wash up on the 
beaches of Pakistan. That’s the Arabian Sea. I know very little about the 
Indo-Pacific fauna, so I am not much help to her.

Does anyone have suggestions for websites, publications, or books that might
enable her to ID the Arcidae species she has already found? 
I mean other than the Huber "Compendium of Bivalves" book, 
which I am certain her university cannot afford to buy!

I was also wondering if there is such a thing anywhere as a 
marine mollusk faunal list for somewhere in the Arabian Sea, 
such as West India, or maybe Oman, Yemmen, or Somalia…?

I did tell her to get in contact with the Bombay Natural History Society, 
in Mumbai; I thought they might be able to help.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Here are images of a few valves of one? species that she has already posted:

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/syada

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