Tropical Marine Mollusks: An Illustrated Biogeographical Guide
暫譯: 熱帶海洋軟體動物：插圖生物地理指南

海洋生物地理學是研究世界海洋中生物的空間分佈，這是海洋學中最迷人的分支之一。本書延續了對軟體動物群分佈的開創性研究，這項研究最早是由生物學家在160多年前進行的。書中以全彩插圖展示了1778種腹足類動物，其中許多是極為稀有且鮮為人知的特有種，這些物種首次在其原始描述之外被插圖展示。

本書中展示的軟體動物群的空間排列可以被視為全球海洋條件的代理，並可用作確定全球氣候變化模式的工具。本書對進化“熱點”和地理上受限的特有動物群的記錄，也可以作為未來研究海洋生物圈環境惡化和滅絕模式的基準。

本書記錄了全球腹足類動物群的驚人豐富進化，將吸引物理和化學海洋學家、系統和進化生物學家、歷史地質學家、古生物學家、氣候學家、地貌學家和物理地理學家。作者將這些學科的各個方面納入一個新的分類系統，用於熱帶、副熱帶和溫暖溫帶海域中生物地理空間單位的命名。

Edward J. Petuch was born in Bethesda, Maryland in 1949. Raised in a Navy family, he spent many of his childhood years collecting living and fossil shells in such varied localities as Chesapeake Bay, California, Puerto Rico, and Wisconsin. His early interests in malacology and oceanography eventually led to BA and MS degrees in zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. During his MS thesis research, Petuch concentrated on the molluscan biogeography of West Africa, traveling extensively in the Canary Islands, Western Sahara, Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, and Cameroons. During this time, he also conducted research on the molluscan ecology of both coasts of Mexico and the Great Barrier Reef of Belize. Continuing his education, Petuch studied marine biogeography and malacology under Gilbert Voss and Donald Moore at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Miami, where he received a full scholarship. During this time, his doctoral dissertation research involved intensive field work in Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Barbados, the Grenadines, and Brazil, where he often went to sea with the local shrimpers for weeks at a time. After receiving his Ph.D. in oceanography in 1980, Petuch was invited to conduct two years of postdoctoral research, funded by the National Science Foundation, with Geerat Vermeij at the University of Maryland. While there, he also held a research associateship with the Department of Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, under the sponsorship of Thomas Waller, and conducted field work in the Plio-Pleistocene fossil beds of Florida and North Carolina and the Miocene fossil beds of Maryland and Virginia. Petuch has also collected and studied living mollusks in Australia, Papua-New Guinea, Fijis, French Polynesia, Japan, the Bahamas, Nicaragua, and Uruguay. This research has led to the publication of over 300 scientific papers and the discovery and description of over 1,200 new species of mollusks and over 90 new genera. His previous 20 books are well-known reference texts in the malacological and paleontological communities, and some of the better known include: Jewels of the Everglades: The Fossil Cowries of Southern Florida (2018), The Living and Fossil Busycon Whelks: Iconic Mollusks of Eastern North America (2015), Molluscan Communities of the Florida Keys and Adjacent Areas: Their Ecology and Biodiversity (2014), Biogeography and Biodiversity of Western Atlantic Mollusks (2013), Molluscan Paleontology of the Chesapeake Miocene (2010), The Geology of the Everglades and Adjacent Areas (2007), Cenozoic Seas: The View from Eastern North America (2004), and Cone Shells of the Okeechobean Sea (2015). Currently, Petuch is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida where, for thirty years, he taught undergraduate classes in oceanography, paleontology, and physical geology, and graduate classes in paleoecology and paleoceanography. He currently resides in Jupiter, Florida, with his wife Linda, where they both enjoy visits from their three children and their families.

David P. Berschauer was born in Rockville Center, New York in 1964, and spent his youth collecting shells in such varied localities as California, New York, Florida, Washington, and Mexico. His early interests in natural history, malacology, and marine biology eventually led to a B.S. degree in biology at the University of California-Irvine, an advanced marine invertebrate zoology course at Washington State University's Friday Harbor Marine Lab, and studies towards the pursuit of a graduate degree in marine biology at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. While still an undergraduate, Berschauer performed field biology research, published a number of research papers and gave scientific presentations at national conferences. He subsequently switched career paths and attended Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, California, earning his Juris Doctorate degree in 1991. Although having developed a legal career, he has kept malacology as a lifetime avocation and has put together a sizeable research collection and personal museum of molluscan specimens. Over his entire professional life, Berschauer continued to pursue his passion for marine biology, and collecting and studying marine organisms. In his spare time, he has developed and published a relational database software program to aid in the organization and maintenance of a systematic collection. Although originally designed for malacology, the program is applicable to entomology and other aspects of systematic zoology. Now residing in Laguna Hills, California, Berschauer is an active member of the San Diego Shell Club and is the co-editor of the journal, The Festivus. He is also well known for his natural history and shell photography, with a multitude of high-quality examples seen throughout this book. Besides being the author of many important scientific papers on molluscan systematics, Berschauer has described and named over 30 new species of gastropods and is also the co-author of several recent books on mollusks, including The Living and Fossil Busycon Whelks: Iconic Mollusks of Eastern North America (2015), Jewels of the Everglades: The Fossil Cowries of Southern Florida (2018), and the well-received Sea Shells of Southern California: Marine Shells of the Californian Province (2018). Between court cases and an active law practice, Berschauer and his wife Felicia find time to enjoy traveling on cruise ships and exploring.

愛德華·J·佩圖赫於1949年出生於馬里蘭州的貝塞斯達。成長於海軍家庭，他在童年時期曾在切薩皮克灣、加州、波多黎各和威斯康辛等多個地點收集活體和化石貝殼。他對軟體動物學和海洋學的早期興趣最終使他獲得了威斯康辛大學密爾瓦基分校的生物學學士和碩士學位。在碩士論文研究期間，佩圖赫專注於西非的軟體動物生物地理學，並在加那利群島、西撒哈拉、塞內加爾、甘比亞、塞拉利昂、象牙海岸和喀麥隆等地進行廣泛旅行。在此期間，他還對墨西哥兩岸和伯利茲的大堡礁的軟體動物生態進行了研究。繼續深造，佩圖赫在邁阿密大學的羅森斯蒂爾海洋與大氣科學學院，跟隨吉爾伯特·沃斯和唐納德·摩爾學習海洋生物地理學和軟體動物學，並獲得全額獎學金。在此期間，他的博士論文研究涉及在哥斯達黎加、哥倫比亞、委內瑞拉、巴巴多斯、格林納丁斯和巴西的密集實地工作，期間他經常與當地的捕蝦者一起出海數周。1980年獲得海洋學博士學位後，佩圖赫受邀在馬里蘭大學與吉拉特·維爾梅伊進行為期兩年的博士後研究，該研究由美國國家科學基金會資助。在那裡，他還在史密森學會國家自然歷史博物館的古生物學部門擔任研究助理，並在佛羅里達州和北卡羅來納州的上新世化石床以及馬里蘭州和維吉尼亞州的中新世化石床進行實地工作。佩圖赫還在澳大利亞、巴布亞新幾內亞、斐濟、法屬波利尼西亞、日本、巴哈馬、尼加拉瓜和烏拉圭收集和研究活體軟體動物。這些研究導致他發表了超過300篇科學論文，並發現和描述了超過1,200種新的軟體動物物種和90多個新屬。他之前的20本書在軟體動物學和古生物學界廣為人知，其中一些較為知名的包括：《大沼澤地的珠寶：南佛羅里達的化石海螺》（2018）、《活體和化石的Busycon海螺：東北美洲的標誌性軟體動物》（2015）、《佛羅里達礁島及其周邊地區的軟體動物群落：生態與生物多樣性》（2014）、《西大西洋軟體動物的生物地理學與生物多樣性》（2013）、《切薩皮克上新世的軟體動物古生物學》（2010）、《大沼澤地及其周邊地區的地質學》（2007）、《新生代海洋：來自東北美洲的視角》（2004）和《奧基喬比海的錐形貝殼》（2015）。目前，佩圖赫是佛羅里達大西洋大學地球科學系的名譽教授，在那裡，他教授海洋學、古生物學和物理地質學的本科課程，以及古生態學和古海洋學的研究生課程。他目前與妻子琳達居住在佛羅里達州的朱庇特，兩人都享受來自三個孩子及其家庭的探訪。

大衛·P·伯沙爾於1964年出生於紐約的洛克維爾中心，年輕時在加州、紐約、佛羅里達、華盛頓和墨西哥等多個地點收集貝殼。他對自然歷史、軟體動物學和海洋生物學的早期興趣最終使他獲得加州大學爾灣分校的生物學學士學位，並在華盛頓州立大學的星期五港海洋實驗室修習進階的海洋無脊椎動物生物學課程，並在佛羅里達州立大學追求海洋生物學的研究生學位。在本科期間，伯沙爾進行了野外生物學研究，發表了多篇研究論文，並在全國會議上進行科學報告。隨後，他轉換職業道路，進入加州洛杉磯的西南大學法學院，於1991年獲得法學博士學位。儘管發展了法律職業，他仍將軟體動物學作為終身的愛好，並建立了一個相當規模的研究收藏和個人軟體動物標本博物館。在整個職業生涯中，伯沙爾持續追求他對海洋生物學的熱情，並收集和研究海洋生物。在空閒時間，他開發並發表了一個關聯數據庫軟體程序，以幫助組織和維護系統性收藏。雖然最初是為軟體動物學設計的，但該程序也適用於昆蟲學和其他系統性動物學的方面。現在居住在加州拉古納山，伯沙爾是聖地牙哥貝殼俱樂部的活躍成員，也是期刊《The Festivus》的共同編輯。他以自然歷史和貝殼攝影而聞名，書中有許多高品質的範例。除了撰寫多篇關於軟體動物系統學的重要科學論文外，伯沙爾還描述和命名了超過30種新的腹足類物種，並且是幾本近期關於軟體動物的書籍的共同作者，包括《活體和化石的Busycon海螺：東北美洲的標誌性軟體動物》（2015）、《大沼澤地的珠寶：南佛羅里達的化石海螺》（2018）以及廣受好評的《南加州的海貝殼：加州省的海洋貝殼》（2018）。在法庭案件和活躍的法律實踐之間，伯沙爾和他的妻子費莉西亞找到時間享受郵輪旅行和探索。