Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca

Thorough & scholarly review of most aspects of mollusk evolution. Heavily technical as far as anatomical terms & cladistics terminology. Not light reading but an excellent reference to any sea shell collector's library.

it's a great reference book

This book is amazing. The organization and layout is ever so pleasing. And there is finally consistency in a field with no consistency! A really integrated piece of work with all of the world's top malacologists coming together to put this on our bookshelves--it's on mine! If you ever need a dissertation or major thesis project just open practically any page of this book and the authors will tell you a plethora of research just waiting to be done. The molluscs are such a wonderful and under-appreciated group of animals, and this book really makes you acknowledge the vastness and wonder that is the mollusc.