The culmination of a ten year study, it treats all bivalve mollusks living from northern Baja California, Mexico to Arctic Alaska. A total of 472 species are described and illustrated with detailed photographs and drawings. All habitats in the region are included from the intertidal splash zone to the abyssal depths of the ocean basins. The book has over 4,800 complete bibliographic references to the bivalves including citations on the biology, physiology, ecology, and taxonomy of this commercially and biologically important group. Character tables and dichotomous keys assist the reader in identification. Also included in the 764 page book is an illustrated key to the superfamiles of the region, and a complete glossary.

Bivalve Seashells of Western North America (Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs)

Science & Math

Coan, Eugene V.

Nature & Ecology

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This checklist presents an inventory and classification of the land snails and slugs of California and reports their distribution by county as known to us from examination of approximately 12,000 specimen lots in museum and private collections. All mollusks listed here are terrestrial, not aquatic, although sometimes that distinction is rather arbitrary, as with some semi-aquatic Succineidae (included) or the marine-margin Truncatellidae (excluded). County occurrences of each taxon are listed from north to south, with the California Channel Islands grouped at the end. Distribution outside the state is summarized briefly. Late Quaternary (Pleistocene and early Holocene) fossil distributional records are included. Many of these are outside the species’ Recent ranges and document the fluid character of land mollusk distribution through time.

Checklist of the Land Snails and Slugs of California (Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Contributions in Science, No. 3)

Roth, Barry

Sadeghian, Patricia S.

<p>A survey of the varied geological features that shape Santa Barbara County, which is situated at the western extent of California's widest section and is nearly as large as Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Coverage extends from Santa Barbara's three mountain ranges, its valleys and coastal plains to four of the offshore Channel Islands. Also included are road logs, with detailed descriptions of geologic features to be seen along 25 different county routes. The author is a pre-eminent local geologist and Professor Emeritus at UCSB who has taught about the Santa Barbara region for the past 40 years. Written for the general audience, 73 figures and maps, 246 pages.</p>

The Geology and Landscape of Santa Barbara County, California, and Its Offshore Islands (Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs)

Norris, Robert M.

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