Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Introduction 5
3. Strawberry topshell 13
4. Pāua 14
5. Hundred-eyed cowry 17
6. Common distorsio 18
7. Zigzag nerite 21
8. Tanned cowry 23
9. Beech cone 24
10. Spiky trophon 27
11. Glassy nautilus 28
12. Sun carrier shell 30
13. Violet sea snail 33
14. Map cowry 34
15. Precious wentletrap 37
16. Lister’s conch 38
17. Amber snail 41
18. Golden cowry 43
19. Giant sundial 44
20. Egg cowry 47
21. Imperial volute 48
22. Purple dye murex 51
23. Japanese wonder shell 53
24. Jewel slit shell 54
25. Desert snail 56
26. Elongated egg cowry 58
27. Indian chank 61
28. Banded grove snail 63
29. Carrier shell 64
30. Turban top shell 66
31. Miraculous diplomat snail 69
32. Donkey’s ear abalone 70
33. Green tree snail 73
34. Bean partula 74
35. Sunburst star turban 77
36. Money cowry 78
37. Glory of the sea 81
38. Candy cane snail 82
39. Triton’s trumpet 85
40. White garden snail 86
41. Queen conch 88
42. West Indian worm shell 91
43. Cuban land snail 93
44. Ventral harp 94
45. Cambodian bertia 97
46. Dennison’s morum 98
47. Atlantic fig shell 101
48. Tapestry turban 102
49. Saul’s murex 105
50. Cuming’s periwinkle 106
51. Annam amphidromus 108
52. Pelican’s foot 111
53. Juke’s keyhole limpet 113
54. South African turban 114
55. Zebra volute 117
56. Crowned baler 118
57. Shinbone tibia 121
58. Australian trumpet 123
59. Spotted tun 125
60. Spiny riversnail 126
61. Geography cone 129
62. Scorpio conch 130
63. Scorpio conch 132
64. Hirase’s volute 135
65. Tent olive 137
66. Spiral babylon 138
67. Flat periwinkle 140
68. Marbled cone 143
69. Pyramid clio 144
70. Venus comb 146
71. Jenner’s or pustulate cowry 148
72. Arabic bubble shell 151
73. China limpet 152
74. Fly-specked moon snail 155
75. Telescope snail 156
76. Maple leaf triton 159
77. Senckenberg false hadra 160
78. Boxall’s snorkel snail 163
79. Eloise’s acteon 164
80. Bullmouth helmet 167
81. Scaly-foot snail or sea pangolin 169
82. Lined moon snail 170
83. Loebbecke’s murex 173
84. Episcopal mitre 174
85. Horned helmet 176
86. Babylon turrid 179
87. Roissy’s tree snail 181
88. Textile nerite 182
89. First pagoda shell 185
90. Loxostoma-oblique mouth door snail 186
91. Triseriate auger 188
92. Ocean quahog 191
93. Black-lipped pearl oyster 192
94. Royal cloak scallop 195
95. Noble pen shell 196
96. Angelwing clam 198
97. Northern quahog 200
98. Saint James shell or king scallop 202
99. Atlantic thorny oyster 205
100. Bear paw clam, horse’s hoof or strawberry clam 207
101. Atlantic tiger lucina 208
102. Lion’s paw scallop 211
103. Giant clam 212
104. Frond oyster 215
105. Cockscomb pearl mussel 216
106. Ox heart clam or heart cockle 218
107. Queen scallop 220
108. Great ribbed cockle 223
109. Wedding cake venus 224
110. Windowpane oyster 226
111. Common watering pot 229
112. Cock’s comb mussel 230
113. Black hammer oyster 233
114. Spiny venus 234
115. Lazarus jewel box 237
116. Zigzag venus 238
117. Heart cockle 241
118. Naval shipworm 243
119. Chambered nautilus 244
120. Paper nautilus 247
121. Ram’s horn squid or common spirula 249
122. West Indian green chiton 250
123. Elephant tusk 252
124. Glossary 254
125. Index 255