Book ID: 93351
Mikkelsen, Paula M. and Rüdiger Bieler
Seashells of Southern Florida. Volume 1: Living Marine Mollsuks of the Florida Keys and Adjacent Regions: Bivalves. 2007. illus. 486 p. Hardcover.
Located where the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea converge, the Florida Keys are distinctive for their rich and varied marine fauna. The Keys are home to nearly sixty taxonomic families of bivalves such as clams and mussels, roughly half the world's bivalve family diversity. The first in a series of three volumes on the molluscan fauna of the Keys and adjacent regions, Seashells of Southern Florida: Bivalves, Volume 1 provides a comprehensive treatment of these bivalves, and also serves as a comparative anatomical guide to bivalve diversity worldwide.