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i i i i ith ice. We all know 
70 to 75% of their body cavity being filled wit 
that cold temperatures are dehydrating but these enhnanke pene 
quite so unfortunate as you might think. Though the body water 
i i it is not the body tissue or cellular 
iba ieee pe ae: but is chiefly extra-cellular water, 
e saturated salt solution. 
Newsletter, April 1976, of the 
National Capital Shell Club. 
protoplasmic fluid that fr 
The remaining fluid then becomes a mor 

REVIEW: 
MUREX SHELLS OF THE WORLD: 
An Illustrated Guide to the Muricidae, 
by George E. Radwin and Anthony DY Attilio. Stanford University 
Press, Stanford, California, 1976, 284 p., illus., $35.00. 
This handsomely produced and profusely illustrated handbook is remi- 
niscent of the conchological iconographs of a bygone era. The last 
comparable undertaking on the worldwide Muricidae appeared nearly 
100 years ago. The present work includes approximately 400 differ- 
ent species and illustrates some 450 specimens in full color. In 
addition, 62 species are illustrated by wash drawings or by black- 
and-white photographs, and 179 line drawings are provided to detail 
morphological features. These enlarged drawings include superb ren- 
ditions by the junior author of surface sculpture, protoconchs, and 
radular dentition, subjects not found in most popular shell books. 
As envisioned by the authors, this family of stenoglossan neogastro- 
pods is restricted to and subdivided into five subfamilies, namely 
the Muricinae, Ocenebrinae, Muricopsinae, Typhinae, and Trophoninae. 
Nearly all of the known living species of the family are treated ex- 
cept for the Trophoninae, for which only the type species of genera 
are covered. Within each subfamilial group, the genera as well as 
the species assigned to each genus are arranged alphabetically. for 
"practical" considerations, the authors did not use subgenera and 
Subspecies as taxonomic units. As a result many presently accepted 
subgenera are elevated to generic rank and others are ignored, as 
generic synonymies are not provided. Fifteen new species are de- 
scribed in an appendix, and three homonyms are renamed in the text. 
Lengthy descriptions and the geographical ranges are given for the 
species. Unfortunately, diagnostic comparisons of the species are 
largely lacking. 
In addition to the introduction in which biological, ecological, and 
Systematic data are presented, this volume also includes a illus- 
trated glossary, a list of sources for the figures, a bibliography, 
and an index. Anyone interested in this difficult and diverse group 
of shells will find this an indispensab ‘ ial 
tion of their collection. p le source for the identifica 
WILLIAM K. EMERSON 
Department of Fossil and 
Living Invertebrates, 
The American Museum of 
Natural History, N. Y. 
The above review is reprinted 
from BioScience Vol. 27 No. 8 
