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Journal of Conchology
Current Part: 45 (1), 2024
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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
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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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Common British & Irish garden molluscs
British Vertigos
Freshwater and Brackish-water Snails of Britain and Ireland
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Eine Kleine Snailmusik
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