Abstract
THE Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria is designing a series of handbooks to foster interest in the State's fauna and flora. The second of the series is by C. J. Gabriel, honorary conchologist, National Museum, Melbourne ; it is entitled “Victorian Sea Shells, a Handbook for Collectors and Students”, and has been published by the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (price Is. 6d.). It is well illustrated by Joyce K. Allan, assistant conchologist, Australian Museum, Sydney, with a coloured and several un-coloured plates. Descriptions are given of most of the common sea shells around the coast of Victoria. From a collector's point of view, this little work is extremely useful and will help many to name their specimens. It does not, however, attempt to teach anything about the animals themselves beyond their various habitats. A popular name is given to each shell, in most cases a translation of the specific name. Thus we have the “impoverished Nassarius” and the “sordid sand snail”, but there is the banded periwinkle, also known as the “Austral wink”, and the black nerite, also known as the “crow”. There are a dictionary of terms and diagrams showing the different parts of the shell.
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Sea Shells from Victoria. Nature 141, 325 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141325a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141325a0