Editor's Note
When we walk along the seashore or walk on the banks of a river to pick up a shell that has been exposed in the mud and sand, we are often amazed and amazed by the miraculous power and rich imagination of the Creator. People like to use small beautiful shells to make key chains, make wind chimes... But little attention has been paid to the rich information about life carried by the shells.
What exactly is a shell? What colorful faces do they have, and where do they come from? As we approach the Shell Museum, we will have a clearer understanding of these issues.
What kind of book is this? What is the story behind its publication?
Today, the responsible editor of this book, Professor Li Shufang of Peking University Press, will take us to find out.
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Quick questions and quick answers
1 Summarize the content of the book in one sentence
Li Shufang: This book is a huge contribution of the world's shellfish experts to explain in detail the habitat, size, habits, diet, development process of 600 species of shellfish, as well as collection, collection and identification methods, with more than 1800 high-definition original color maps, reproducing the beautiful art form of shellfish, the perfect combination of science and art, academic and popularity, instrumentality and collectivity
2 Tell me why I edited this book
Li Shufang: The publication of "Shell Museum" can be said to have realized a dream when I was a child. Growing up on the seashore, when I was a child, I stepped on the soft beach with bare feet, comfortably blowing the sea breeze, humming the song "The Little Girl Who Rushed the Sea", looking around for beautiful shells on the beach, picking them up, playing with them, just like picking up rare treasures in the palm of my hand, carefully placing them in my pants pockets, and going home carefully stored in my "treasure house"... The scene of chasing the waves on the beach in search of shells as a child still fresh in my mind. I still don't remember how many "treasures" my "treasure house" hid, but at that time I just had a dream that I would collect all the beautiful "treasures" into my treasure house.
When the leader brought me this original book about shells for me to read, the content of the book suddenly attracted me and made me love it. More than 600 shells are distributed around the world, each with color illustrations of the size of the original size, and the author is also a world-renowned expert. This book seems to be in the dark that I'm going to do.
Calm down to do this book, we are still more cautious, from the text content to the quality of the picture, from the beginning to the end of the careful reading, more determined to introduce and publish this book.
When we walk along the seashore or walk on the banks of a river to pick up a shell that has revealed a corner of the mud and sand, we are often surprised and marvel at the miraculous power and abundance of the Creator's imagination. People like to use small beautiful shells to make key chains, make wind chimes... But little attention has been paid to the rich information about life carried by the shells.
What exactly is a shell? What colorful faces do they have, and where do they come from?
When we walk into the Shell Museum, we will have a clearer understanding of these issues.
3 What's most appealing to you in this book?
Li Shufang: The shellfish we see in our daily lives may be only a very small part of the shellfish creatures, and when we walk into the Shellfish Museum, the shells picked up from the book have a more amazing appearance.
Radiant cherry clams
(Cherry clam family, found in South Carolina–Brazil)
The radiant cherry clam, also known as the "sunrise cherry clam", got its name because the pink radial ribs on the shell resemble the scene at sunrise. The logo of the world-renowned Shell Transport Trading Company is based on the Radiant Cherry Clam.
Shell Transport and Trading Company
(Image from the official website of "Shell Brand Shell China")
Olive pheasant bell snail
(Horseshoe snail, found in New South Wales – Western Australia)
"The olive pheasant bell snail is a common horseshoe snail that lives on seagrass in tide pools and shallow waters, as well as on seagrass along open coasts and semi-protected areas."
Black-mouthed milky snail
(Pycnidae, distributed in East Africa-Pacific)
The black-mouthed milk snail is a carnivorous creature that "wraps its prey with its feet and drills a wide hole in the prey to eat it." ”
Golden Baby
(Baby family, distributed in the southwestern and eastern Pacific Ocean)
We often associate "treasure" and "shell" to refer to precious things. And there is indeed a "baby family" in shellfish. "The Golden Treasure is a nocturnal species that hides in a rift during the day." The Golden Baby fresh sample has a dark magenta color on the back, but fades into a dark orange when exposed to intense sunlight. ”
Sea snails
(Sea snails, found in warm waters worldwide)
The sea snail is a predatory animal, it has no eyes, uses bubbles as a raft, and floats freely in the sea, feeding on food it encounters.
4 Did you encounter any unforgettable experiences during the editing of this book?
Li Shufang: To determine the introduction and publication of this book, the next work is to determine the appropriate author, so I almost understand and compare the experts who can undertake the translation of this book in the country. To this end, during the Spring Festival holiday, I went to visit Mr. He Jing (@Gondwana), although Mr. He also appreciated the book, but because of his personal reasons, he did not have time to undertake translation work. Later, I turned to find the team of teacher Wang Haiyan of the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Qingdao, and when Teacher Wang got the book, he was shocked and attracted by the content of the book, and immediately decided to undertake the translation of the book. Every translator I searched for gave the book a high degree of recognition, and although the process of determining the translator went through several twists and turns, the affirmation of the scholar I came into contact with in the process increased my confidence in the book.
5 Who would you like to recommend this book to?
Li Shufang: I would like to recommend this "treasure book" to shellfish researchers, collectors, and young readers.
Wonderful book excerpts
"Shell Museum" is a high-level popular science book of shellfish that perfectly combines science and art, academic and popularity, instrumentality and collectibility.
The book details 600 of the world's most representative marine shellfish species and their approximate species. These important shellfish have a global range of habitats extending from the intertidal zone to the deep sea and from the cold polar regions to the tropical oceans.
In order to better show the characteristics of the shells, each small shell is equipped with a variety of high-definition original color maps, one picture is the same as the real size of the original species, and the other is a close-up picture, which can clearly identify the main characteristics of the species.
These pictures are either from private collectors and merchants, or from related natural or shellfish museums, and have strong appreciation and professional value.
In addition, each shell specimen is accompanied by a corresponding black-and-white picture and is dimensioned in detail.
With more than 1,800 illustrations, the book not only reproduces the diversity of sizes and shapes of various shellfish, but also shows their beautiful art forms.
The authors also briefly introduce the basic methods of shellfish collection, collection and identification, as well as the basic information of shell morphology, geographical distribution map, habitat environment, size, habits and feeding habits, developmental processes and biological characteristics. In particular, this book provides an important basis for the classification of shells.
Each comes with a map of geographical distribution, which is self-explanatory.
At the end of the book, there is a scientific name search form and a common name search form, which is convenient for readers to quickly search and query.
Museum Library natural museum series, which is a set of high-level popular science books that perfectly combine scientific and artistic, academic and popular, instrumental and collectible.