Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Conchology of Nottingham: Or a Popular History of the Recent Land and Fresh Water Mollusca Found in the Neighbourhood
Land and fresh-water shells are divided into two classes, namely, bivalves, or those which have two similar shells united by a hinge at the summit, and univalves, which are formed of one continuous whorl or coil. Land shells are, without an exception, univalves.
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