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      • Journal of Conchology Volume 44, Part 4, October 2022
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      • Journal of Conchology Volume 39, Part 2, November 2006
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        • 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
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        • Field meeting at Norwich
        • Geology for conchologists - Introduction
        • Geology for conchologists - The last 15,000 years
        • The Strophocheilidae
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        • Sinistrorsity
        • Some etymology
        • Systematics sewn up
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        • 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
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        • Still more autobiography
        • The Viviparidae
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    Octopus and squids

    Sepia officinalis. Lateral fins extend full length of body; not united at posterior. Dark brown dorsally with ‘zebra’ stripes laterally; effective camouflage among long leaves and shadows of Zostera. November 2011. Sublittoral. Sezimbra, Portugal.
    Sepia officinalis
    Sepiola atlantica. Hovering with aid of fins and translucent white exhalent funnel pointed down. Attached bases of fins do not reach anterior or posterior of mantle. June 2009. Connemara, Ireland.
    Sepiola atlantica
    Octopus vulgaris swimming. Bag-like body, with warty surface. Eight equal arms with two rows of suckers each. Arms linked basally by web. Palma aquarium, Mallorca, Spain. June 2009.
    Octopus vulgaris
    Eledone cirrhosa. Ventral surface white, clearly demarcated from dorsum by pale rim around lateral periphery of mantle. Mainly benthic, moving on arms, but jet propels water from exhalent funnel for rapid escape. April 2010. North Wales.
    Eledone cirrhosa
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