We all know the sort of damage slugs and snails can cause to our favourite garden plants.

Ian Killeen is currently surveying mussels, and has been for most of this summer, and so I have stepped in to put together this issue.

We are all familiar with the idea that scientific names provide a stable, universal way of referring to species.

I wrote in early editions of Mollusc World (6: 10; 8: 22) of the UK BAP review process, which was taking place nine years after the publication of the first BAP lists.

On the 11th November 2006 whilst walking the shoreline of the Fleet at low tide, I noticed a large number of bivalves (Venus verrucosa, Tapes decussatus and Paphia aurea scatte

The following new vice-county records have been confirmed since the last Report (J. Conch. 38: 722-724, 2005). Unless stated otherwise all were confirmed from specimens collected during 2005.