Carrier Shells - Garbage Collectors of the Oceans von Kurt Kreipl | A Portrait of the Gastropod Family Xenophoridae | ISBN 9783948603410

Carrier Shells - Garbage Collectors of the Oceans

A Portrait of the Gastropod Family Xenophoridae

von Kurt Kreipl und Felix Lorenz
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinKurt Kreipl
Autor / AutorinFelix Lorenz
Buchcover Carrier Shells - Garbage Collectors of the Oceans | Kurt Kreipl | EAN 9783948603410 | ISBN 3-948603-41-3 | ISBN 978-3-948603-41-0
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Biologen, Zoologen, Malakologen

Carrier Shells - Garbage Collectors of the Oceans

A Portrait of the Gastropod Family Xenophoridae

von Kurt Kreipl und Felix Lorenz
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinKurt Kreipl
Autor / AutorinFelix Lorenz
This book is a portrait of the Gastropod family Xenophoridae: marine snails with the peculiar behaviour of attaching foreign objects to their shells. Their name is derived from Greek Xenos = foreign and phoros = carrier.
Carrier shells have inhabited the sea floors of tropical and subtropical oceans for eons, recycling empty shells of molluscs, as wel as pieces of dead corals, stones, sunken wood, coal, and even teeth shed by sharks. Only very recently, broken glass, coins, bottle caps, can openers, and pieces of plastic appeared in their environments; things produced and dumped in the sea by man.