A guide to worldwide cowries.

Hackenheim: ConchBooks, (2000 second edition).
Quarto, laminated boards, 584 pp. colour photographs, text illustrations, maps.

This completely revised and enlarged second edition of the magnificent work covers the living cowries with 207 species, many subspecies and reasonable defined forms and variations. There are four new colour and three black and white plates with several new species and forms not formerly illustrated.