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84 BASTERIA, Vol. 70, No. 1-3,2006 Bookreview SCHULTZ,O.,2005.Bivalvia neogenica(Solenoidea-Clavagelloidea).CatalogusFossilium Austriae 1(3), pp. i-v , 691-1212, figs. 9-60, 2 maps, pis 96-152. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,Wien(ISBN3-7001-3499-1).Price€248.-. Tables ofcontents and samplepages ofall three volumes arefreelyaccessible onthe World Wide Web: http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/3499-1. With this thirdvolume, Dr OrtwinSchultz concludes his ‘masterpiece’ onAustrian Neogene bivalves. In sheersize and weight, this part equals the twoearlierparts taken together. Ithasasimilarlyattractivecover asthefirsttwo volumes. Thereis justonepage(p.v) withcorrections and additionalreferences.Thesystem- aticpart, started in volume1,continues from pp.691 to 1067,anddeals withthe super- familiesSolenoidea(pp. 691-699),Tellinoidea(pp. 699-757), Dreissenoidea(pp. 757-829), Arcticoidea(pp. 829-842),Corbiculoidea(pp. 842-850),Veneroidea(pp. 850-983),Myoidea (pp. 984-1003), Gastrochaenoidea (pp. 1003-1008), Hiatelloidea (pp. 1008-1018), Pholadoidea(pp. 1018-1034),Pholadomyoidea (pp. 1034-1042),Pandoroidea(pp. 1042- 1052),Poromyoidea (pp. 1052-1057)and Clavagelloidea (pp. 1057-1060). Itconcludeswith anappendix of variousunidentifiablebivalves (pp. 1061-1067). The56plates ofblack-and-whitephotographs (taken by mrs AliceSchuhmacher, of theNaturhistorisches MuseumWien)areofthe sameexcellent quality as inthefirst two volumes.Inparticular,thenumerous photographs ofalltypeandillustratedspecimens of Dreissena,Mytilopsis andCongeria, so typicalof centralParatethys assemblages, arereally a greathelpand a prerequisite for anyoneworking in thatarea, bothatthe present day and formanyyearsto come! Anextensive localityregisteris givenonpp. 1069-1126.Formorethan2,000namesof sites in sedimentary basins withinAustria, Greenwich co-ordinates(in italics wherever known in detail) andchronostratigraphic age aregiven, as well as pagenumberswhere theselocalitiesarereferredtointhesystematic part, inclusiveoffrequentcrossreferences. Pagenumbersare underlinedinthecaseof typelocalities.Thismakesthisregisterinto a never-ending source ofinformation.Twomaps ofAustriansedimentary basinsand some ofthemostimportant localitiesare given onpp. 1127 and 1128. This volumeconcludeswith acomprehensive listingof alltaxa referredtoin thesys- tematic part, aswell as all synonyms. Ataxon such as Glans (Centrocardita)aculeata rhom- boideacanbefoundunderbothspecies groupnamesaculeataandrhomboidea,butnot under thegenusgroupnames.For validtaxa andnames inheadings, thepagenumbersare given in bold. I checked outanumberofnames andfound no omissions. An indicationforthe accuracy withwhichthese indiceswere composed is thatin each case not only thepage numberisgiven, buteventhecolumn(leftorright, indicatedwith/I or/2)onthatpage. Over sixkilogrammes of dataareavailablenowto thescientificworld! My two ear- lier reviews ofparts 1 and 2 ended with an expression of myadmiration- here I shall refrainfromrepeating myself,but....Icanhearhimbreatheasigh ofrelief... it's done! So, allIwishtosay nowis 'DrOrtwinSchultz:chapeau !' Arie+W. Janssen