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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.

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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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