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      • Journal of Conchology Volume 44, Part 4, October 2022
      • Journal of Conchology Volume 44, Part 3, April 2022
      • 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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    Gadila olivii
    Gadila subfusiformis
    Galba truncatula
    Galeodea echinophora
    Galeodea rugosa
    Galeomma turtoni
    Galiteuthis armata
    Gari costulata
    Gari depressa
    Gari fervensis
    Gari tellinella
    Gastrana fragilis
    Gastrochaena dubia
    Geitodoris planata
    Genitoconia atriolonga
    Geomalacus maculosus
    Gibbula cineraria
    Gibbula magus
    Gibbula pennanti
    Gibbula tumida
    Gibbula umbilicalis
    Glaucus atlanticus
    Glossus humanus
    Glycymeris glycymeris
    Gonatus steenstrupi
    Gonieolis typica
    Goniodoris castanea
    Goniodoris nodosa
    Goodallia triangularis
    Gouldia minima
    Graphis albida
    Greilada elegans
    Gulella io
    Gymnomenia pellucida
    Gyraulus acronicus
    Gyraulus albus
    Gyraulus chinensis
    Gyraulus crista
    Gyraulus laevis
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