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Harper Collins, 2016. 432, col photos, col illus. . PB. NEW. . The gastropods are the only group of molluscs to have representatives living on land as well as in marine and freshwaters. Slugs and snails are found from the tundra through to deserts, and on all continents apart from Antarctica. They have reached the most remote oceanic islands and undergone amazing evolutionary radiations there. As pests, they are remarkably tenacious and hard to control. They have evolved to span a huge range of size. Through all this, they have retained a set of shapes and structures very similar to those of their marine relatives and ancestors. Furthermore it is evident that the emergence onto land happened not once, but several times, originating in different groups of aquatic snails.In this long-anticipated volume the author introduces us to this remarkable group of gastropods, telling us the stories of the snail familiar to all British and many other readers, the garden snail, and of the giant African snail,…
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- Title Slugs and Snails
- Author Robert Cameron
- Series Collins New Naturalist Library
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Paperback
- Pages 528
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Date 2016
- ISBN 9780007113019 / 0007113013
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