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      • Journal of Conchology Volume 44, Part 4, October 2022
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      • Journal of Conchology Volume 44, Part 2, October 2021
      • Journal of Conchology Volume 44, Part 1, April 2021
      • Journal of Conchology Volume 39, Part 2, November 2006
      • Journal of Conchology Volume 39, Part 1, May 2006
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      • Issue 1
        • Collecting East African marine snails
        • Field meeting to Box Hill
        • Introduction
        • Oyster Catchers feeding on Patella vulgata
      • Issue 2
        • Collecting localities in the Cape Province
        • Field meeting Walton-on-Naze
        • Herons, Moorhens and Rats feeding on Anodonta anatina
        • Introduction to molluscan taxonomy 1) Species and subspecies
        • Volutes
      • Issue 3
        • Introduction to molluscan taxonomy 2) The significance of types
        • Land and freshwater snails: additions to the British List since 1926
        • Littoral collecting in the Scilly Isles
        • Snails in a Sussex garden
      • Issue 4
        • Biographical Note
        • Introduction to molluscan taxonomy 3) The genus
        • Learning in Nucella lapillus
        • Mollusca on Liverpool bomb sites
        • The Cardiacea
        • The Strombidae
      • Issue 5
        • A suggested method for extracting the animals from small high-spired shells
        • Commensual crabs in Mytilus edulis
        • Field meeting at Shell Bay, Dorset
        • Field meeting at West Runton and Overstrand
        • Introduction to molluscan taxonomy 4) Taxonomic history
        • J.G. Bruguiere 1750-98
      • Issue 6
        • A little more biography
        • Field meeting at Amberley
        • Field meeting to Grasswood, Yorkshire May 1962
        • Marine collecting in New Zealand
        • Marine mollusca of Carnac, Brittany
        • On the use and misuse of common names
        • Strand shells after Cornish gales
        • Trochus magus in the Isle of Wight
      • Issue 7
        • 35 years collecting
        • Field meeting Epping Forest
        • Field meeting White Downs
        • More strand shells after Cornish gales
        • Natural History Museum at Craster
        • Notes on the pholadidae
      • Issue 8
        • Field meeting at Norwich
        • Geology for conchologists - Introduction
        • Geology for conchologists - The last 15,000 years
        • The Strophocheilidae
      • Issue 9
        • More autobiography
        • Sinistrorsity
        • Some etymology
        • Systematics sewn up
      • Issue 10
        • Field meeting at Norbury Park
        • Papers for students
        • Rearing snails from the egg
      • Issue 11
        • David Landsborough
        • Field meeting at Albury
        • Field meeting at Leith Hill
        • Posting living mollusca
        • Snails extinct in England but living abroad
        • Still more autobiography
        • The Viviparidae
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    (syn): synonym.

    Balea biplicata
    Balea biplicata subsp. biplicata
    Balea heydeni
    Balea perversa
    Bankia bipennata
    Bankia fimbriatula
    Barbatia nodulosa (syn)
    Barleeia unifasciata
    Barnea candida
    Barnea parva
    Bathyarca petunculoides
    Bathybela nudator
    Bathybela nudator
    Bathycrinicola curta
    Bathyomphalus contortus
    Bathypolypus arcticus
    Bathyteuthis abyssicola
    Bentharca nodulosa
    Benthoctopus ergasticus
    Beringius turtoni
    Berthella plumula
    Berthella sideralis
    Berthellina citrina
    Biserramenia psammobionta
    Bithynia leachii
    Bithynia tentaculata
    Bittium jadertinum
    Bittium lacteum
    Bittium reticulatum
    Bittium scabrum
    Boettgerilla pallens
    Boreochiton ruber (Linnaeus, 1767)
    Boreocingula castanea
    Boreocingula globuloides
    Boreocingula globulus
    Brachioteuthis bowmani
    Brachioteuthis picta
    Brachioteuthis riisei
    Brachystomia carrozzai
    Brachystomia electa
    Brachystomia eulimoides
    Brachystomia eulimoides var. alba
    Brachystomia lukisii
    Brachystomia scalaris
    Brachystomia scalaris var. nitida
    Buccinum humphreysianum
    Buccinum oblitum
    Buccinum undatum
    Bulbus fragilis
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