An up-to-date list of all the Red Sea molluscs including the Gulfs of Suez,
Aden and Aqaba (not Aquaba, it has nothing to do with aqua=water) has been
published by:
Dekker, H. & Orlin, Z., 2000: Check-list of Red Sea mollusca. Spirula, 47
(supplement): 1-46.
It contains numerous changes in the nomenclature used by Oliver (1992) in
his excellent "Bivalved seashells of the Red Sea", in part based on changes
made already by Oliver (1995) himself in his chapter on the bivalves in
"Seashells of Eastern Arabia" (Bosch et al., 1995).
Regards,
Henk K. Mienis
National Mollusc Collection
Dept. Evolution, Systematics & Ecology
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel
----- Original Message -----
From: Attila Siklosi <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: Really good books on Bivalvia?? + introduction + need help


> Dear Conch-lers,
>
>  My husband and I have just recently joined this list from Hungary. We are
> interested in everything that concerns marine life (especially coral
reefs,
>  mangroves and seagrass beds).
> Our usual destination is the Red Sea in Egypt.
>
>  Regarding Jan's question:
>  Last Oct-Nov. when we were in Egypt we wanted to learn something more
about
>  the bivalves of the region. For the identification of species encountered
> we
>  used the following book:
>  P.Graham Oliver: Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea
>  It is - as far as an amatouer can judge - an excellent one. It gets
started
>  with an introduction to help identification then comes a key to the
higher
>  taxa of bivalves then it goes through each orders, families and species
> etc.
>  There are tons of explanatory drawings and 46 colour plates with
>  approximately 400 species. I can suggest this useful book to everybody.
>
>  If you are interested I can tell you from where you can get this book.
>
>  Now comes the "need help" part.
>  I wonder whether any of You have experience concerning bivalves of the Re
d
>  Sea, especially Aquaba Bay.
>  Did You run any research / bivalve monitoring in that region, do You know
> about a good reference
>  collection, species inventory list etc.?
>  Thanks in advance and warmest regards from cold Hungary
>  Hajni (Hajnalka Kovacs)
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