Australia's Spectacular Cowries
Subtitle: A Review and Field Study of Two Endemic Genera--Zoila and Umbilia
Publisher: Odyssey Publishing
Published: July 2004
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780966172027
Subjects: Molluscs; Australia
First sentence: of it is local in-breeding and a high degree of genetic variation between isolated populations throughout the species' range. These two factors, historical origins and larval development strategies, appear to be the principal issues underlying the extreme variability that we see in the shells of the modern species of Zoila and Umbilia.