Hi Mike,
        some good articles dealing with Red Sea molluscs by Singer & Mienis have
been published on 'La Conchiglia'. They are family monographs:
Ranellidae      Vol. 22 (250-252): 18-28 (1990)
Thaididae       Vol. 23 (260): 16-19 and Vol. 23 (261): 54-60 (1991)
Terebridae      Vol. 25 (268): 51-60 (1993)
Buccinidae      Vol. 27 (274): 22-29 (1995)
Nassariidae     Vol. 29 (282): 16-17 and Vol. 29 (283): 36-43 (1997)
Bursidae        Vol. 29 (285): 49-54 (1997)
These articles have good colour photographs of all species listed.
 
Another book is:
Coulombel A., 1994 - Coquillages de Djibouti. - Edisud, France
It has very good colour photos but doesn't illustrate many species.
 
        Hoping this could be of help,
                                                Paolo
 
 
 
At 15.40 03/03/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi everybody!
>
>I am looking for a good book for determining red sea shells. I sometimes
>get specimens from friends who go there for scuba diving, and I=B4m looki=
>ng
>forward to going diving there myself. So I would be thankful for any good=
>
>information about which book is useful for this region.
>
>The special determination problem I have right now concerns a Strombus
>species I do not find in my books: the two specimens I got are 34x20 resp=
>=2E
>38x23 mm in size, the shoulder has a row of tubercles, the base colour is=
>
>white with interrupted brown spiral stripes, the mouth is bright orange.
>The collumellar callus has some shallow folds with deep orange staining
>between them. This is probably quite a common species, but see above for =
>my
>problem.
>
>Greetings from Germany
>Mike
>
>