Robin Monnier (6 results)

Cet ouvrage rend hommage à Patrice Bail, unéminent spécialiste des Volutidae, dans lequel il présente ses vues, quelquefois iconoclastes, sur la classification de cette famille. Il a, au cours des ans, réuni une importante collection de volutes dont certains spécimens sont rarement vus. Toutes les coquilles représentées dans ce livre sont de la collection particulière de Patrice. This book pays tribute to Patrice Bail, a prominent Volutidae scholar, in which he presents his somtimes iconoclastic views on the classification of this family. Over the years, he has assembled a large collection of volutes, some of which are rarely seen. All the shells represented in this book are from Patrice's private collection. Harxheim. ConchBooks / Chelles. AFC. 223 pp., num. color plates, hardback 4 [bilingual French / English].

The authors needed the best part of eight years to complete this comprehensive panorama of the family Conidae. These gastropods are of particular interest to a variety of audiences: collectors for their beauty, taxonomists for their challenging systematics and pharmacologists for the conopeptides that can be developed from their venoms. The main purpose of this book is to present all the recent species considered as valid. The species concept is based on shell as well as radular morphologies, developmental mode, molecular characters, geographical ranges and ecology. The presentation of both volumes is richly illustrated with almost 6700 specimens that represent more than one thousand species and subspecies some of which still pending description. 604 pp., num. color figs, hardcover 4.

The authors needed the best part of eight years to complete this comprehensive panorama of the family Conidae. These gastropods are of particular interest to a variety of audiences: collectors for their beauty, taxonomists for their challenging systematics and pharmacologists for the conopeptides that can be developed from their venoms. The main purpose of this book is to present all the recent species considered as valid. The species concept is based on shell as well as radular morphologies, developmental mode, molecular characters, geographical ranges and ecology. The presentation of both volumes is richly illustrated with almost 6700 specimens that represent more than one thousand species and subspecies some of which still pending description. pp. 606-1205, num. color figs, hardcover 4.