A Taxonomic Iconography of Living Conidae
Volume 1
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Beschreibung
The authors needed the best part of eight years to complete this comprehensive panorama of the family Conidae. These gastropods are of particular interest to a variety of audiences: collectors for their beauty, taxonomists for their challenging systematics and pharmacologists for the conopeptides that can be developed from their venoms.
The main purpose of this book is to present all the recent species considered as valid. The species concept is based on shell as well as radular morphologies, developmental mode, molecular characters, geographical ranges and ecology. The presentation of both volumes is richly illustrated with almost 6700 specimens that represent more than one thousand species and subspecies some of which still pending description.
Autor*in
Eric Monnier
He obtained a diploma of Engineer in Chemistry at INSA in Toulouse (1977), PhD in Organic Chemistry at the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse (1982) and DSc / HDR in Organic and Biological Chemistry in 1992. He taught Chemistry at the IUT of Cumana (Venezuela) and in ENS of Fes (Morocco). Since 1984, Eric has been working at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) in Paris and at the Institut National des Sciences et Techniques de la Mer (INTECHMER) in Cherbourg.
Collecting shells and classify them has been a passion since he was very young. He specialized in Cones and since 2009 he co-described 34 new species and 2 genera of Cones. He and Alain Robin are research volunteers in the laboratory of Malacology at the MNHN. Eric Monnier is currently acting as President of the Association Française de Conchyliologie (AFC).
Themen in »A Taxonomic Iconography of Living Conidae«
Conidae Conotoxine Gastropoda Kegelschnecken Mollusca Radula Schnecken Weichtiere