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TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Back
issues of the COA quarterly journal, American Conchologist,
are available at $3.00 per issue prior to 1985 and $5.00 from
1985 to the present. Filled with articles on shells, shell trips,
personalities in the shell world, events, collecting and exhibiting
methods...they are an excellent resource.
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December
ISSUE 2007 -
Editor’s
Notes; Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) 23 May 1707
- 10 January 1778 by Bruce Neville; Shelling Trip to Tibet
by He Jing; Linnaean Trivia Quiz by Bruce Neville; Neptunea
Award by Carole Marshall; 2008 Shell Shows and Related
Events by Donald Dan; Dealer Directory; Longest Lived
Mollusk by Thomas Eichhorst; A New Book: Texas Seashells;
Book Review: Recently Collected Shells of Vietnam; Book
Review: The Shell: A World of Decoration and Ornament;
Book Review: The Recent Molluscan Fauna of Île Clipperton
(Tropical Eastern Pacific); “See Y’all There,”
San Antonio, Texas, COA 2008; Townsville Shell Club News
by Thomas Eichhorst; Conus kalafuti Da Matta 1987 by Ted
Kalafut; Abalone Farm by Peggy Williams; A Shell From
Mars by S. Peter Dance; In Memoriam; Umbraculum umbraculum
(Lightfoot, 1786) by Ted Kalafut
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September
ISSUE 2007 -
Small Western
Atlantic Buccinidae. Part 1. The Genus Bailya M. Smith,
1944 by G. Thomas Watters; Erosaria guttata (Gmelin, 1791):
The Great Spotted Cowrie by Charles Rawlings; Dealer Directory;
Australian Marine Mollusks by Zvi Orlin; Exotic Molluscan
Introductions to the San Francisco Bay Area by Tom Grace;
Cypraeovula alfrendensis-A Blue Form of Cypraeovula edentula
by E.L. Heiman; Shells Work Their Magic at Portland COA
2007 by Marsha Darcy; Book Review: Shells; Book Review:
Terebridae A Collectors Guide; In Memoriam; True Tales
of Tagelus by Steven Rosenthal
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June
ISSUE 2007 -
Editor’s
Notes; Report on Mollusks Collected in a Dredging Expedition
to Bahía de Campeche, Southwestern Gulf of Mexico
by Emilio Fábian García; Notocypraea emblema
Iredale, 1931, the Forgotten Cowry by Don Cram; Dealer
Directory; COA Convention “Chardonnay & Shells”
by Joyce Matthys; More on Blood-Sucking Mollusks by Zvi
Orlin; 2007 Shell Shows and Related Events: July - December
by Donald Dan; In a Bag of Sand - A Study of Pinellas
County, Florida, Micro-Mollusks by Tom Grace; Jordan Star’s
Web Picks; Book Review: Beach Treasures of the Gulf Coast;
The Neptunea Award; COA Award Winners by Carole Marshall;
In Memoriam; Rare As Hens’ Teeth by Tom Eichhorst;
The Art of Gregory Aquila by Tom Eichhorst
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December
issue 2006- Notes
from the Editor; Additional Notes on Kaiawase by Richard
E. Petit; Bloodsucking Pyramidellids by Robert Robertson;
Nudibranch Navigation: The Natural History of Tritonia
diomedea by Russell C. Wyeth; Book Review: Out Of My Shell
reviewed by Rusti Stover; Book Review: The Mollusks: A
Guide To Their Study, Collection, and Preservation reviewed
by Tom Eichhorst; Dealer Directory; 2007 COA Convention
Update; Market Collecting by Joaquin Inchaustegui; Jordan
Star’s Web Picks; 2007 Shell Shows & Related
Events by Donald Dan; In Memoriam; 2007 COA Grants Program;
Minus Tide Adventures in Downeast Maine by Kevin Czaja;
Mollusks and the Wallace Line by Zvi Orlin; Cypraeidae:
Lyncina carneola (Linnaeus, 1758) form leviathan by Eduard
Heiman
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September
issue 2006- Notes
from the Editor; About Luria controversa (Gray, 1824)
by Eduard Heiman; Jordan Star’s Web Picks; COA Award
Winners by Carole Marshall; Japanese Shell-matching Game
by S. Peter Dance; Shell Desk Diary by Leslie Allen Crnkovic;
Dealer Directory; New Shell Records for Florida by David
Kirsh; “Chardonnay and Shells” in Portland,
Oregon, 1-5 Aug 07 by Joyce Mattheys; A southern extension
of Gyroscala xenicima (Melvill & Standen, 1903) by
Emilio Fabián García; Report of a left-handed
Dentimargo eburneolus (Conrad, 1834) (Gastropoda: Marginellidae)
from Bahía de Campeche, Mexico by Emilio Fabián
García; Thoughts on Species and Speciation - Phenoplasticity
by Burton Vaughn & Tom Eichhorst; Book Review: Recent
& Fossil Indonesian Shells reviewed by Zvi Orlin;
Landsnails of Claiborne Bluff by Harry G. Lee; Haplotrema
and AriolimaxAs Depicted by Tlingit Artists by Neil E.
Fahy; In Memoriam
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June
issue 2006- Jordan
Star’s Web Picks; A Fresh Look at Conus milneedwardsi
Jousseaume, 1894, and Conus bengalensis (Okutani, 1968)
by Michael Tove; Dealer Directory; COA Convention - 2006
by Tom Eichhorst; Invitation to Oregon in 2007 by Joyce
Mattheys; On Daphnella (Paradaphne) retifera Dall, 1888
by Emilio Fabián García; Book Review: Catalogue
of the Marine Gastropod Family Fasciolariidae reviewed
by William G. Lyons; Shell Show Schedule for the Second
Half of 2006 by Donald Dan; Book Review: Fasciolariidae
reviewed by William G. Lyons; In Memoriam; Book Review:
Offshore Shells of Southern Africa reviewed by Zvi Orlin;
COA Grants Program by Tom Eichhorst; The Two Faces of
Tibia martini (Marrat, 1877) by Tom Eichhorst; Artistry
of Jan Huijbers by Tom Eichhorst
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March
issue 2006- Gyroscala
xenicima (Melvill & Standen, 1903) (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae)
by Emilio Fabián Garciá; Bivalved Gastropods:
Berthelinia and Julia (order Sacoglossa, family Juliidae)
by Robert Robertson; Book Review: The Healing Power of
Seashells by Daya Sarai Chocron, reviewed by Paul Calloman;
Notocypraea: the piperata - comptonii Complex by Don Cram;
Dealer Directory; COA Convention - 2006 by Andrew K. Rindsberg;
Cuba and a Few of Its Land Snails by Neil E. Fahy; SCUM
X: Southern California United Malacologists by Lindsey
T. Groves; Multiplying Monadenia Snails by Lisa Ross;
Artistry of Steven Counsell by Tom Eichhorst
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December
issue 2005 - New
Strombid Names & Knowledge of Interrelationships by
Robert Robertson; Jordan Star’s Web Picks; A Stepping-Stone
to Marine Conservation: The Importance of Island-Hopping
by Eric Crandall; Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758) The
Ramshorn Shell by Zvi Orlan; Book Review: Marine Mollusks
in Japan reviewed by Zvi Orlin; 2006 Shell Shows &
Related Events (Jan - Aug) by Donald Dan; The Neptunea
Award form; Dealer Directory; Conus kulkulcan Petuch,
1980 by Ted Kalafut; Barging In - A Shelling Adventure
to the Perlas Islands of Pacific Panama by Karen VanderVen;
Recent Changes In Texas Shell-Bearing Mollusk and Intertidal
Organism Harvest Regulations by Randy Blankenship; What
Shell Is This?; COA Convention 2006, Mobile Alabama: “Sea
Treasure” by Doug Shelton; Sanibel Island Shell
Museum Celebrates First Decade by Libby Grimm
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September
issue 2005 -
Large Conchs (Strombus) Are Endangered Herbivores Having
Many Predators and Needing Dense Populations of Adults
to Reproduce Successfully by Robert Robertson; Shell Collecting
in Iceland Part V: The Deep Sea by Moshe Erlendur; It’s
The Closest Thing To Being There (DVD Review of Undersea
Treasures) by Karen VanderVen; Dealer Directory; Babyloniinae:
The Babylon Shells (includes the centerfold images) by
Tom Eichhorst; Neptunea Awards by Carole Marshall; The
COA Award by Carole Marshall; Jordan Star’s Web
Picks; Non-Native Nuisance Species: They Can Really Ruin
Your Habitat by Hank Foglino; Book Review: West African
Seashells reviewed by Zvi Orlin; COA Convention 2005:
A Return to the Islands by Tom Eichhorst
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June
issue 2005 - Close
and Closer Looks at a Pedicularia (Cowrie-Relative) Larval
Shell by Robert Robertson; Book
Review: Olividae - A Collector’s Guide by Gunther
H.W. Sterba, reviewed by Zvi Orlin; How to Collect and
Successfully Preserve Chitons by G. B. Jeffrey; Madagascar
- Island of Contrast by Neal Fahy; Dealer Directory; Centerfold:
Seashells of Sanibel Island by José H. Leal; Sorting
Out Linnaeus’ Genus Strombus in Rumphius by Winston
Barney; Frustrations and extension. III. On Columbella
verrilli Dall, 1889; and a geographic extension and generic
placement of Gymnobela malmii Dall, 1881 by Emilio Fabián
García; Jordan Star’s Web Picks; 2005 Shell
Shows and Related Events by Donald Dan; Florida and Caribbean
Turridae: Part 1 Black and Brown Species by Peggy Williams
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March
issue 2005 - COA
President’s Message; 33rd Annual COA Convention;
About Cypraea tigris schilderiana Cate, 1961 by E.L. Heiman;
News From the Malacology Collection of the Cincinnati
Museum of Natural History and Science; Critters Inside
by Bobbi Cordy; 36th Annual Banana Slug Derby by Dan Yoshimoto;
Dealer Directory; Centerfold: Florida Fossils-2 by Kevan
& Linda Sunderland; New Jersey Epitonium Continued...
by Judy-Lynn Goldberg & Robert Robertson; Brazilian
Volutidae by José Coltro; Book Review: CIESM Atlas
of Exotic Species in the Mediterranean; Nesting Clam:
A Field Observation by Peggy Williams; Profile: Boston
Malacological Club by Warren Graff; SCUM IX: Southern
California Unified Malacologists by Lindsey T. Groves;
Some Notes on the Evolution of Mollusks
by Zvi Orlin
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December
issue 2004 - Editor’s
Comments; Volutes Without a Name II by Peter G. Stimpson;
Made for SEM: The Fascinating World of Scissurellids by
Daniel L. Geiger; The Beach Gypsies: An Exploring Adventure
to Cat Island, Bahamas by Karen VanderVen; Welcome to
COA Convention 2005; Jordan Star’s Web Picks; Dealer
Directory; Centerfold: Florida Fossils by Kevan &
Linda Sunderland; Distribution of Marine Molluscs along
the Temperate and Cold Water Regions of the Southern Ocean
and Adjoining Zones by Zvi Orlin; Neptunea Award; Two
(or Three or Four?) Little Known Popular Shell Books by
the late Dr. Tadashige Habe by Richard E. Petit; 2005
Shell Shows & Related Events by Donald Dan; Meet Archie
Jones by Tom Eichhorst; Notadusta eugeniae Paratypes Found
by Don Cram; The Gold-footed Snail by Craig McClain
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September
issue 2004 - President's Message; Jordan Star's
Web Picks; The genus Harpa revisited by Moshe Erlendur Okon;
Report of COA Grants Committee for 2004; Dealer Directory;
Centerfold: (hopefully, but not here yet) by Kevan &
Linda Sunderland; Report on species found in offshore Louisiana
waters, including range extensions and unnamed species III
by E. F. García and H. G. Lee; Conchologists of America
Grant Program by Donald Dan; Meet Paul & Heather Johnson;
Researching a non-whelk: Cittarium pica by Robert Robertson;
Neptunea Award - Bobbie Houchin; Volutes Without a Name
by Peter G. Stimpson; Tampa COA Convention 2004 |
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