Octopuses, squids, cuttlefishes and their relatives ("cephalopods") are some of the most "alien" creatures on earth. They have complex behaviours and many are experts at spectacular color and shape changes. They come in all shapes and sizes, from pygmy octopuses to giant scams (&gt; 15 m long), and occur from shallow reefs to the deep sea (&gt; 7,500 m deep). This guide includes information and images for species from around the world as well as general stories on their unique lives and bizarre habits. With over 800 photos of cephalopods taken in their natural habitat.

Cephalopods: A World Guide

Science & Math

Mark, Norman

Biological Sciences

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Nudibranchs & Sea Snails
Indo-Pacific Field Guide
by Helmut Debilius

1998, IKAN Publishing Frankfort Germany, 2nd edition, hardcover with stitched binding, about 5½ by 9 inches (about 14 by 22 cm), 321 pages, full color photographs of more than 1000 marine molluscs in their native environment.

This is a beautifully illustrated  photo guide book that contains over 1000 full color photographs of marine molluscs. from the Indo-Pacific region. As is the case with the other guides done by this author the photographs are phenomenal.
The shell-less molluscs make up the greater part of the book but there is also a section of about 120 pages of photos and descriptions of those molluscs that have shells and probably the ones that you are most familiar with. Even though these shells are familiar it is still quite an experience to see the living animals  through Debelius' camera lens. It helps reinforce the idea that there is a lot more to the shells than the shell itself. This is an excellent book and one that is in brand new condition. It is also not an easy book to obtain.

Nudibranchs and Sea Snails: Indo-Pacific Field Guide

Helmut Debelius

Mediterranean and Atlantic Fish Guide: From Spain to Turkey - From Norway to South Africa

Asia Pacific Reef Guide: Malaysia, Indonesia, Palau, Philippines

Olividae A Collectors Guide by Gunther H.W. Streba 2004, ConchBooks, Germany, 172 pgs 11.5" by 8.25" page size (A4), includes 62 full size color plates and 74 drawings, laminated board covers, This is a remarkable bookwhich first saw the light of day as a much smaller and less complete work in German which appeared in 2003. The work was so well received that it was expanded and published in an English edition. The family Olividae is much more popular with collectors in Europe than it is with collectors in the USA, but since the publication of this book,that is beginning to change. This title has been one of the best selling titles in my catalog since it became available and I think that there are many new collectors of this family since there is finally a good identification book for these shells. The book has very well photographedand sharply printed plates that show the shells clearly and it also has some SEM photographs of the structure of several of the shells. It is also the first book that I am aware of that covers not just the genus Oliva but also studies the related genera such as the Agaronia, Olivancillaria, Olivella as several of the less familiar genera as well. The book is well organized and is easy to use with the plates on the right hand side of the book and detailed text about the shells on the left hand page. Since many if not most of the shells in this family tend to show considerable variation within each species there are pictures of several members of a single species showing these variations

Olividae: A Collectors Guide

Gunther H.W. Streba

This book is a fantastic photographic guide to the underwater world of the South Pacific. Over 750 stunning color photos display the fascinating world of the Soft Coral Capital and its inhabiting creatures, photographed in their natural environment, as never seen before. This book is not a field guide with listings or descriptions of all the species. The intention of the author is to give some impression from down there and make people aware of the breathtaking beauty of the coral reef and its underwater life. It is also an incitation in protecting such wild beauty! Nevertheless, most of the animals in this book have been correctly identified by fellow divers and scientists. 320 pages.

Fiji's Wild Beauty: A Photographic Guide to Coral Reefs of the South Pacific

Arts & Photography

Achim Nimmerfroh

Photography & Video

Philippine Marine Mollusks Volumes 1 - 5

Guido T. Poppe

The Living Ovulidae A Manual of the Families Ovulidae, Pediculariidae & Eocypraeidae by Felix Lorenz & Dirk Fehse 2009, ConchBooks, Germany , laminated boards, 650 pages, size about 8¼ by 11¾ inches (21 by 30 cm) contains 203 color plates of shells and 375 illustrations of living animals, descriptions of 19 new species and 4 new genera.

The Living Ovulidae

F. Lorenz & D. Fehse

Shells of the Hawaiian Islands

Mike Severns

Shells of the Hawaiian Islands The Sea Shells by Mike Severns 2011, Conchbooks, Hackenheim, Germany, laminated boards, A4 size (about 21 by 29.5cm.) about 8¼ by 11½ inches,564 pages, 225 page size color photographic plates 11 full size color plates in addendum, also maps, charts and illustrations of the living mollusks in their habitat This is nothing less than an amazing work and it is the only complete work that has recently been done on the varied and unusual endemic species of marine mollusks of all classes mollusks that are found off the Hawaiian Islands. Many of these species show complex variations that are fully illustrated and described and several new species are named in this book. In all there are 2828 images of these shells in this book. The introductory section is extremely well written and is essential to the understanding of the descriptions and the illustrations that follow. The descriptions that are keyed to the plates are succinct but more than adequate. They contain the name of the species (including author and date), a size for the illustrated shell, a distribution range and a citation for the location of the shell. A unimaginable amount of work has gone into this book and I think that a great deal of thanks should be given to the author for his dedication in bringing out this book and to share his extensive knowledge of these mollusks with us. This book can be purchased separately or can be purchased along with its companion volume on the sea shells as a set at a reduced price and housed in a slip case.

Mile Severns

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