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which is an obvious mistake as this publication is dedicated to gastropoda. The right quotation is Piechocki &
Dudych-Falniowska (1993).
The final list of literature in such an exceptional publication could have been surely a little more voluminous
and should have involved more faunistic publications dedicated to water molluscs, both older as well as recent ones
(we miss even such an important book as Uli!ný 1895). Unfortunately, some false quotations appear even in the
mentioned publications. E.g. the author indicates wrong numbers of separate magazine volumes in Beran (1995,
1996) and Hruška (1992). However, we have to say that the situation is complicated by the fact that the magazine
“Památky a p&íroda” has been devided into two different titles. The newly created “Ochrana p&írody” magazine
goes on using the same numbering of volumes as the former title, which may be confusing. Right quotations of the
papers mentioned above are presented in the list of literature of this book review.
Despite of the mentioned remarks we have to recommend this book as a modern and basic source for studying
water molluscs in the Czech Republic. This book is sure to help both Czech and foreign scientists. The edition of
this manual has filled up an almost 50-year period during which such a publication was not available.
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