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"""This guide presents an overview of both native and introduced snail species around the country, offering a greater understanding of their role in our natural environment. It’s packed with information, beautiful photographs and diagrams, which include detailed features of snails and their shells. It also lists a broad range of Australia’s native snail, semi-slug and slug species, plus many of the large number of introduced exotic species."" * Gardening Australia magazine * ""Overall, this book is richly illustrated throughout, well presented and is an excellent first introduction to Native Australian Landsnails."" -- Ben Schneider * Western Australian Naturalists Club *"

This guide presents an overview of both native and introduced snail species around the country, offering a greater understanding of their role in our natural environment. It's packed with information, beautiful photographs and diagrams, which include detailed features of snails and their shells. It also lists a broad range of Australia's native snail, semi-slug and slug species, plus many of the large number of introduced exotic species. * Gardening Australia * Overall, this book is richly illustrated throughout, well presented and is an excellent first introduction to Native Australian Landsnails. -- Ben Schneider * Western Australian Naturalists Club *

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Dr John Stanisic, OAM, is Australia's foremost authority on land snails. An Honorary Research Fellow at the Queensland Museum, John has described more than 400 new species. Darryl Potter, MEnvSc, is Biodiversity Collection Manager (Mollusca) at the Queensland Museum. His major interests are in terrestrial and marine gastropods of Australia. Lorelle Stanisic, MPhil, BEd, is an Honorary Researcher at the Queensland Museum. She has completed a master's degree on the charopid land snails of mid-eastern Queensland.

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