Carrier Shells - Garbage Collectors of the Oceans - A Portrait of the Gastropod Family Xenophoridae

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This book is a portrait of the Gastropod family Xenophoridae: marine snails with the peculiar behaviour of attaching foreign objects to their shells. Their name is derived from Greek Xenos = foreign and phoros = carrier. Carrier shells have inhabited the sea floors of tropical and subtropical oceans for eons, recycling empty shells of molluscs, as well as pieces of dead corals, stones, sunken wood, coal, and even teeth shed by sharks. Only very recently, broken glass, coins, bottle caps, can openers, and pieces of plastic appeared in their environments; things produced and dumped in the sea by man. 96 pp., full color, hardcover gr. 8 [19.5 x 27.5 cm].

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Title
Carrier Shells - Garbage Collectors of the Oceans - A Portrait of the Gastropod Family Xenophoridae
Author
Kreipl, K. & Lorenz, F.
Publication year
2023
Binding
Hardcover

ConchBooks

Harxheim, Germany

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Founded in 1985 we are specialized in worldwide literature on Mollusca and marine invertebrates. Our publishing house has meanwhile published approximately 60 titles on that field of interest. We have stocks of most available international books on Malacology and a huge amount of antiquarian literature, even of the latter most titles are only available once.

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Weichtiere / Shells, Schnecken / Snails & Slugs, Muscheln / Bivalves, Tintenfische / Squids / Octopusses / Ammonites, Malacology, Conchology, Marine Biology

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