This book is a beautifully photographed, well-organized, detailed field guide to Florida's bivalve seashells. It contains more than 500 high-resolution color photographs, as well as species descriptions that include key identification features, comparisons with similar species, geographic range,and habitat type. All of the common Florida species are included, as well as many of the uncommon and rare species, making this book indispensable for any Florida shell collector. Divers, educators, marine science students will also find this book highly useful. The text is scientifically accurate, and reflects the latest developments in bivalve taxonomy, yet remains very readable forstudents or newcomers to malacology. This new field guide to Florida bivalve seashells has more photographs of Florida bivalves, and more in-depth descriptions of species than any field guide on the market. It is well-organized by taxonomic group, with color photographs on the same page spread as the detailed species descriptions. The introductory chapters on bivalve anatomy, Florida's coastal habitats, human uses of bivalves, and shell collecting are interesting and clearly written.The organization of this field guide is superior to other field guides, with extra features such as page headers with familynames at the outside corners which make it easy to thumb through the book to find the desired section. There is acomprehensive index that allows searching by family, species name, genus name or common name.This book is physically beautiful as well. The entire book is in full color, and the printing is as superior in quality as an art book. It has a Smythe-sewn binding for longevity. Most books of this quality that have this degree of scientific scholarship are sold at twice the price.