title shellfish (1 Ergebnisse)

Okinawa, Nova Tosho, 2003. 4to (25.7 x 18.3 cm). 128 pp.; numerous full colour photographs of shells, shell culture, artefacts, pearls, etc. Full colour pictorial softcover. = A seldom-seen work on the shells of one of the southernmost Japanese islands, with some more general chapters, dealing with pearl fishing, ethnography, shells on stamps, etc. Contains photos of living molluscs (cowries and other shelled gastropods, nudibranchs, cephalopods). Written by the Japanese malacologist Shohei Shirai (b. 1933). In Japanese with Latin nomenclature. An excellent, clean copy.