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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.

    Vallonia cf. excentrica
    Vallonia costata
    Vallonia pulchella
    Valvata cristata
    Valvata macrostoma
    Valvata piscinalis
    Velutina plicatilis
    Velutina undata
    Velutina velutina
    Venerupis senegalensis
    Ventrosia ventrosa
    Venus verrucosa
    Vertigo alpestris
    Vertigo angustior
    Vertigo antivertigo
    Vertigo genesii
    Vertigo geyeri
    Vertigo lilljeborgi
    Vertigo modesta
    Vertigo modesta subsp. arctica
    Vertigo moulinsiana
    Vertigo pusilla
    Vertigo pygmaea
    Vertigo substriata
    Vitrea contracta
    Vitrea crystallina
    Vitrea subrimata
    Vitreolina curva
    Vitreolina dautzenbergi
    Vitreolina petitiana
    Vitreolina philippi
    Vitrina pellucida
    Viviparus contectus
    Viviparus viviparus
    Viviparus viviparus subsp. viviparus
    Volutomitra groenlandica
    Volutopsius norwegicus
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