Hawaiian
Seashells
by
Mike Severns
2001 2nd
edition 1st printing, spiral bound inside of laminated boards, 277
pages, page size is 5.5" by 8.5" (14 by 21.5cm) illustrated throughout
with color photos
This is a nice book
and I very much like the layout which is clear and easy to use.
The shells a tab indexed by Class and then broken
down into families and into genera and species.
Generally you will see a large picture of a shell
representing the family and there are most often three shells
per page, two views of each shell when down at the specific level. This
book is a lot more than just a guide for beach combers. The shells that
it covers range from the intertidal splash zone down to about 600 meters
in depth. And as you would expect in a book about Hawaiian shells there
are many species endemic to the Hawaiian Islands represented.
There is and overview of each of the families that the book
covers and there is only minimal information about each of the species.
This book does not compare to Alison Kay's "Hawaiian
Marine Shells" (now out of print) in scope or in magnitude
of what is covered, nor was it ever intended to do so. But it does
stand on its own as a nice work and it is one that deserves its own
place in your library for a quick reference guide to the
shells of the only one of the states in the USA that is completely
surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. This is a used book but it is in almost like new condition, with the previous owners' name on the written inside the back cover
