The Freshwater Molluscs of Canada
- ISBN-10
- 0660000229
- ISBN-13
- 9780660000220
- Category
- Nature / Animals / Marine Life
- Pages
- 446
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981
- Publisher
- National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada
- Authors
- National Museum of Natural Sciences, Arthur Haddleton Clarke
Description
A complete field guide and laboratory manual for shell collectors, with descriptions and lovely watercolour illustrations of every species of freshwater mollusc found in Canada. Clarke's identification keys and descriptions are extremely useful identification tools. Clarke also deals with mollusc ecology and our relationship to molluscs. 1981
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