Moazzo, P.G. — Mollusques Testacés marins du Canal de Suez.

1939 287 p., 15 (1 col.) pls, 4 large folded maps, 4to (28.2 x 22.5 cm), paperbound. Mémoires de l'institut d'Ãëgypte. With authors dedication: '' à Mr Max Desjardin souvenir amical Georges Moazzo''. Rare. The opening in 1869 of the Suez Canal had important zoogeographical implications because two faunas separated for millions of years became reconnected. This is the most important of the earliest studies of the fauna of th Suez Canal. A good thorough and well illustrated study of the mollusc fauna living in the canal at that time by the Greek malacologist Georgi Polychronis Moazzo (1893-1975).