Land Snails in the British Isles (AIDGAP) - Softcover

Cameron, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1851538909 ISBN 13: 9781851538904

Publisher: Field Studies Council, 2003

Synopsis

• AIDGAP identification guide to all 100 free-living terrestrial snails in Britain
• Most specimens can be identified from live animals in the field

Snails are common and easy to collect in terrestrial habitats. Plus unlike many other invertebrates, they will not fly off while you are trying to identify them. Despite this, land snails are under-recorded in many areas.

This guide features four sets of keys. The first two keys offer two alternative routes to taking identification to family level. Firstly there is a pictorial key, using shell height to width ratio and shell size. Secondly there is is a more traditional dichotomous key to families.

Then the next two keys take identification to species level. The third key uses dichotomous and tabular keys where these are appropriate. The fourth key covers the difficult identifications, for the small number of species requiring dissection.

AIDGAP guides are accessible identification keys, suitable for non-specialists from age 16+. Originally published in 2004, the Second Edition of Land Snails AIDGAP was published in 2008.

Edition details

• Publisher: Field Studies Council
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1851538909
• ISBN 13: 9781851538904
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Riley Gordon
• Number of pages: 82