Crustaceans Books

Having completed a 3week trip to Australia for shelling...I was overcome with the variety of my collection...82 new species....so I immediately turned to Amazon for rescue...this book has proven to be totally covering of all the Gastropods I found.....I liken this to R. Tucker Abbotts "Compendium of Seashells"....it is definitely a Classic!!! Roz

We deal with Australian seashells and often get asked by collectors around the world about more information and images of Australian (particularly the endemic) shells. We usually recommend this 2 volume-book as it not only contains the latest information and numerous excellent colour plates on the subject, but is also beautifully designed and a real joy to browse through for beginners and advanced collectors alike. The text is very exhausive on all major Australian gastropod families and provides the first ever published comprehensive info about the fascinating Zoila group (Western Australian endemic Cowries).

I had read a review that complained about Bullard only using visible characteristics but for quick ids it is a good reference to have. It is a great addition to my collection. Short and easy taxanomic keys. I also have Paul Sandifers Decapods of the Chesapeake Bay and the two go well together. Bullard draws from Sandifer in his book but also has other good drawings for identification. For most species there are drawings for each zoea life stage.

Excellent crab larvae key for the east coast! If you have or love crab larvae, you NEED this!

This is a valuable reference for anyone who lived and eats from the Pacific North West Marine environment. The descriptions are consise and well written. The colour plates are clear and make identification fairly easy.
It is well organized and will probably be on my Christmas shopping list for a few select friends.

I knew Greg when I was a grad student at Western Washington U. while he was still writing this book and photographing subjects. I had many lengthy conversations with him then and would consider him an authority on west coast crustaceans. Now I work at the Humboldt State U. Marine Lab and frequently use his book as a reference (when students aren't borrowing it!). It is easy to use and more up-to-date with the latest taxonomic changes than many other books on the subject.

-Grant Eberle, Equipment Technician, HSU Marine Lab.

All ESA Recovery Plans from 1989 to 2001 are included. There are so many endangered & threatened species in the USA it just boggles the mind! And all this incredibly hard to find information is listed on a single CD! Absolutely amazing!

While the ESA is currently under siege by the Bush 2 Administration, one has to wonder if anyone in the current Interior Department is following through on any of these plans! I look forward to an update of this important information in 2009, once a more enlightened group of individuals retakes the White House!

The left page of each two page spread has very simple text that still includes scientific information. There is also a label for each watercolor illustration on the right page. This is almost a book within a book. The afterword show a small black and white of each illustration and an additional paragraph of more detailed information. Karen Woodworth-Roman, Children's Science Book Review

Montale is the great Italian poet of this century, and this is his best book. English Horn is of a stunning beauty. It ends, in Italian, with the verse "Scordato strumento, cuore!". The translation is beautiful: the poetry is, definitely, not lost!

This is a benchmark document to the knowledge of the tanaids in a poorly known and interesting environment of the Northwestern Atlantic. The book is also appealing as it allows the reader to infer the potentially high but yet undiscovered diversity of tanaidaceans in the deep sea of the world ocean. This book also offers a much needed and clear overall revision of the morphology and development of the group. A must for marine carcinologists and benthos ecologists and taxonomists.

My sister is very lucky I love her so much. This two volume set is unlike anything I have ever seen outside a museum. This book first published in 1719 was a landmark of hand colored beauty to be had only by the most serious collectors of natural history. To this day,in spite of the strides made illuminating the life of sea creatures, these volumes still stand as a masterpiece of scholarship, passion and artistic ability. Renard's FISHES,CRAYFISHES AND CRABS meticulously drawn and captured in the brilliant watercolors of the eighteenth century has induced a VERY bad case of book lust. This is strictly heirloom quality and yet can still be had for a song. Reissued as a rare book By John Hopkin's University Press in 1995, The volumes are covered in blue green linen over board and slipcased. They are printed on archival acid free cream colored stock and preserve the eighteenth century print and text. The original text in Renard's French is published in facsimile, though each fish is also identified in English. A full translation is provided by the editor as well as Renard's biographical background and notes on natural history of the period and the Indies where Renard created this important book.
So my sister's getting reaaaaaally old. I guess she will get it for her birthday!

The beautiful illustrations and touching story which is told in first person, or should I say "first pill bug" make this a outstanding story. Great book to use in a classroom.

Those with a serious, scientific interest in crayfish or branchiobdellids will find this is to be an indispensable reference (branchiobdellids are little worms that attach by suckers to the outside of crayfish, or live in their gill chambers). It is a comprehensive bibliography on crayfish, and includes citations to all references through 1987. For those not familiar with scientific bibliographies, this book basically is a list of all books, scientific papers, and other documents written about crayfish, from Aristotle's time through 1987 -- it does not include actual information about crayfish, but is the key to finding that information.

Assembling a bibliography like this takes years of dedicated work. This particular bibliography is outstanding for a number of reasons.

Most entries are annotated, using codes to conserve space -- the need to refer to the two-page table of codes is a little inconvenient, but there is no other way to annotate without greatly increasing the length of the book. Annotations are extremely valuable to those using a bibliography, and their inclusion makes this bibliography particularly valuable.

The entries are both alphabetized by author and sequentially numbered. The comprehensive index cites to the sequential numbers to conserve space. The entries for 1986-1987 appear in a separate list at the end of the book, with their own index, but that does not detract from the utility of the book.

The actual list of references is in small print, but the entries are still easy to read -- with over 12,000 entries, small print is necessary to keep the book at a size that is convenient to use.

The authors explain in detail how they assembled the bibliography, and offer the user a number of practical tips. An interesting bar graph following the preface shows the geometric growth of the crayfish literature during most of the 20th century.

The copy I purchased came with a CD. I have not had time to fully explore the CD, but it should be extremely useful to anyone who needs to assemble a preliminary bibliography on a limited aspect of crayfish biology.

Finally, the full-color photo of a longpincered crayfish on the dust jacket is striking.

This is not bedside reading for most folks, but it is an extremely valuable reference for anyone interested in studying crayfish or branchiobdellids. Thanks to the authors for a monumental task well done.