Recommended Seashell and Marine Mollusc Resources

Below you'll find a list of books and websites where you can learn much more about seashells and the marine gastropods that live in them!


BOOKS

  • National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Seashells by the National Audubon Society
  • Smithsonian Handbooks: Shells by S. Peter Dance
  • Compendium of Seashells: A Full-Color Guide to More than 4,200 of the World's Marine Shells by R Tucker Abbott and S. Peter Dance.
  • The Book of Shells: A Life-Size Guide to Identifying and Classifying Six Hundred Seashells by M.G. Harsewych and Fabio Moretzsohn
  • Shells: Nature's Exquisite Creations by Joyce Tenneson
  • Seashells of North America: A Guide to Field Identification; a Golden Field Guide from St. Martin's Press
  • Peterson First Guide To Shells Of North America by Roger Tory Peterson and John Douglass
  • Guide to Seashells of the World (Firefly Pocket series) by A. Oliver and James Nicholls


WEBSITES

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