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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.
September
issue 2011
- Letters
and Comments;
Noteworthy
mollusks from
the Gulf of
Mexico, including
new record
sizes and
geographical
extensions
by Emilio
F. García;
On Vexillum
(Pusia) articulatum
(Reeve, 1845)
and V. (P.)
trophonium
(Dall, 1889)
by Emilio
F. García;
Epilogue/prologue
to “junkyard
bug”
report with
two early
references
by Harry G.
Lee; Dealer
Directory;
Romancing
the Stones:
a shelling
expedition
to the Dominican
Republic by
Karen VanderVen;
List of species
- Dominican
Republic by
Winston Barney,
Bill Kreis,
Glenn Duffy,
and Karen
VanderVen;
Cracking a
queen conch
(Strombus
gigas), vanishing
uses, and
rare abnormalities
by Robert
Robertson
Sanibel Island
Shell Show
2011; In memoriam;
2011 COA Convention
by Tom Eichhorst;
Sacred chank
revisited
by Ken Rose
June
issue 2011
- Letters
and Comments;
In the thick
of it: the
jungles of
the Solomon
Islands by
Simon Aiken;
Threetooth
ID ruminations
open a centuries-old
amphi-Atlantic
Pandora’s
Box by Harry
G. Lee; Dealer
Directory;
Mid-Atlantic
Malacologists
Meeting by
Elizabeth
Shea, Leslie
Skibinski,
& Aydin
Örstan;
2011 Sarasota
Shell Club
Shell Show
by Ron Bopp;
2011 Broward
Shell Club
Shell Show
by Nancy Galdo;
St. Petersburg
Shell Club
Shell Show;
October 2010
British Shell
Collectors’
Club Shell
Show; Oregon
Society of
Conchologists
Shell Show;
What is a
shell worth?
by Tom Rice;
Historical
notes on a
sinistral
sacred chank:
Turbinella
pyrum by Harry
G. Lee; SCUM
XV: Southern
California
Unified Malacologists
by Lindsey
T. Groves;
Interesting
boring by
He Jing; Book
Review: “Mattheus
Marinus Schepman
(1847-1919)
and His Contributions
to Malacology”;
Book Review:
Compendium
of Florida
Fossil Shells,
Volume 1,
Middle Miocene
to Late Pleistocene
Marine Gastropods;
Book Review:
Shells of
the Hawaiian
Islands, Vol.
1, The Sea
Shells; Vol.
2, The Land
Shells
March
issue 2011
- Letters
and Comments;
A moveable
feast by George
Metz; Another
sinistral
Notocypraea
and some interesting
observations
by Don Cram;
The curious
case of Conchology
versus Malacology
by S. Peter
Dance; Conch
shells on
coins by Jesse
Todd; Dealer
Directory;
In Memoriam;
The Solomon
Islands: treasure
from the sea
by Simon Aiken;
The 2010 Philadelphia
Shell Show
by Paul Callomon;
2010 Philadelphia
Shell Show
supper guest
speaker Dr.
Henry Augustus
Pilsbry by
Paul Callomon;
COA Annual
Convention;
John A. Baker;
Katherine
“Bobbi”
Cordy; Emmanuel
Guillot de
Suduiraut;
Trevor D.
Roberts
December
issue 2010
- Letters
and Comments;
Ifremeria
nautilei Bouchet
& Warén,
1991 by Tom
Eichhorst;
Gettleman
key to probe
of major reversals
by Harry Lee;
In Memoriam;
Four Abnormal
Landsnails
from Israel
by Moshe Erlendur
Okon; Dealer
Directory;
COA 2010 Convention:
Shellebration
Boston; 2011
Shell Shows
& Related
Events (Jan
- Jul) by
Donald Dan;
Conchologists
of America:
Neptunea Award
by Harry Lee;
A rough few
months for
COA members;
we lost four;
Thoughts From
a Shell Collector
to Her Family
and Friends:
a poem by
Betty Jean
Piech; Back
to the Gulf
of Aqaba:
the search
for rare shells
of the Red
Sea by Moti
Kovalis; First
Modern Shell
Show in China
by Robert
Janowsky;
Conus recurvus
Broderip,
1833: One
Mo’
Time by J.
M. Inchaustegui;
The rise and
fall of “Conus
recurvus Broderip
1833”
by Bruce Neville;
An Eleutheran
Adventure:
My First Live
Shell Collecting
Trip by Amelia
Ann Dick;
COA Award
Winners; Mystery
Bivalve in
the Caribbean
by D.Y. Zhang;
September
issue 2010
- Letters
and Comments;
Conus archetypus
Crosse, 1865
in northwestern
Panama by
Emilio F.
García;
Absence of
evidence is
not evidence
of absence,
or never say
“never”
by Harry Lee;
A geographic
extension
for two species
of Favartia
(Muricidae:
Muricopsinae)
from the western
Atlantic by
Emilio F.
García;
Book Review:
“The
Sound of a
Wild Snail
Eating”;
Book Review:
“Encyclopedia
of Texas Seashells”;
In Memoriam;
COA Award
Winners; Dealer
Directory;
New generic
assignments
for Strombidae:
A summary
of recent
changes by
Winston A.
Barney; Andrew
Grebneff (1959-2010);
Robert C.
“Bob”
Dayle (1946-2010);
Cozumel, Mexico
by Jim Lyle;
Are those
Mexican slippers?
by J.M. Inchaustegui;
Report on
the Epitoniidae
of the East
China Sea:
Part 2 by
Lenny Brown;
A reclusive
Tennessee
snail: Anguispira
picta (Clapp,
1920) (Discidae)
by Tom Eichhorst
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June
issue 2010
- Letters
and Comments;
Bocas del
Toro revisited.
A follow-up
of Olsson
& McGinty’s
report on
the Panamanian
Archipelago
by Emilio
F. García;
A New Sherll
Display by
Bobbi Cordy;
In Memoriam;
Dealer Directory;
Pheasant Snails
(Phasianella)
by Robert
Robertson;
June Huie
by Ardeth
Hardin; What
goes around
comes around;
Jacksonville
Shell Club
to fund annual
COA Academic
Grant by Harry
G. Lee; 2010
Shell Shows
and Related
Evenets (Aug
- Dec) by
Donald Dan;
The World’s
Smallest (and
Probably ugliest)
Shell Collector
by Tom Eichhorst;
Shell Show
Winners; Last
Call for Shellebration
Boston: COA
2010; Living
Fossils by
Zvi Orlin

March
issue 2010
- Letters
and Comments;
Costoanachis
sertulariarum
(d’Orbigny,
1839) in the
Gulf of Mexico
by Emilio
F. García;
The Power
Of One by
Emilio F.
García;
SCUM XIV:
Southern California
Unified Malacologists
by Lindsey
T. Groves;
Pearls in
the Nevada
Desert? by
Joaquin Inchaustegui;
Systematic
Classification
of Recent
and Fossil
Conoidean
Gastropods,
by John K.
Tucker and
Manuel J.
Tenorio, ConchBooks,
2009: a review
by Bruce Neville;
In Memoriam;
Dealer Directory;
The World
of Cones According
to Tucker
& Tenorio
(2009) by
Bruce Neville
(images by
T. Eichhorst);
Astronaut
Trail Shell
Club holds
30th Space
Coast Seashell
Festival by
Bobbi Cordy;
North Carolina
Shell Show
25-27 September
2009 by Tom
Eichhorst;
Snails and
Coal Mining
by Tom Eichhorst;
The Freshwater
Mussels of
Ohio, 2009:
a review by
Tom Eichhorst;
Shellebration
Boston: COA
2010; Jean
Andrews (1923
- 2010) by
Tom Eichhorst;
Archie Jones
(1910 - 2010)
by Tom Eichhorst;
Frieda Schilling
(1924 - 2010)
by Alan Gettleman
December
issue 2009
- Editor’s
Comments;
Live Shells
From the Gulf
of Aqaba in
the Red Sea
by Kovis Moti;
2010 Shell
Shows and
Related Events
by Donald
Dan; Sea Shell
Searchers
of Brazoria
County Shell
Show Awards;
In Memoriam;
Discovery
of the Conus
lightbourni
Petuch, 1986
holotype by
Elizabeth
K. Shea1 and
William J.
Fenzan; Scientists
at FAU’s
Harbor Branch
Oceanographic
Institute
are the First
to ‘Unlock’
the Mystery
of Creating
High-quality
Cultured Pearls
From the Queen
Conch By Gisele
Galoustian;
Dealer Directory;
Book Review:
“George
Brettingham
Sowerby, I,
II, III: their
conchological
publications
and Molluscan
taxa”;
Edgar Allen
Poe: Conchologist
by Tom Eichhorst;
Black and
White and
Red All Over:
A Cone-Seeking
Odyssey to
Roatan, Honduras
by Karen VanderVen;
Collecting
Shells: A
Passion, Joy,
and Mission
by Zvi Orlan;
Shell-abration
Boston: COA
2010
September
issue 2009
- Editor’s
Comments;
Notocypraea:
Shell Collecting
and Science
By Don Cram;
John W. Kline,
Pioneer American
Shell Dealer
By Bill Michal;
Dealer Directory;
Marine Shells
of Northeast
Florida: A
Chronicle
of the Campaign
By Harry G.
Lee; Book
Review: Marine
Shells of
Northeast
Florida; Book
Review: Clams,
Oysters, &
Scallops;
Book Review:
Seashells
On My Mind;
Book Review:
Encyclopedia
of Marine
Gastropods;
Mollusks in
Wonderland:
The Pelecypoda-Bivalvia
Dilemma By
Cléo
Dilnei de
Castro Olivera;
In Memoriam;
Cypraea (Eclogavena)
dayritiana
– Dayrit’s
Cowry By Charles
E. Rawlings,
M.D., J.D.;
End of a Voyage
By Bob Pierson;
Shell-abration
Boston: COA
2010
June
issue 2009
- In Memoriam;
Some Look-A-Like
Shells by
Tom Eichhorst;
A Canadian
Cowrie? by
Lindsey T.
Groves; Grenada
by Karen VanderVen;
Dealer Directory;
Jumala and
the ‘Eyeless
Hitler Beetle’
by S. Peter
Dance; Haliotis
rugosa Lamarck,
1822: A Confusing
and Little
Known Abalone
From the Indian
Ocean - A
Brief Description
and Photo
Study by Buzz
Owen; Report
on the Epitoniidae
of the East
China Sea
By Lenny Brown;
Book Review:
The Search
for Darley
Dale (and
the Glory
of the Sea);
Trawling the
East China
Sea by He
Jing
March
issue 2009
- Editor’s
Comments &
Note to COA
Members; The
Department
of Malacology
at the Academy
of Natural
Sciences of
Philadelphia
by Paul Callomon
& Robert
Robertson;
Book Review:
The Genus
Conus (Mollusca:
Neogastropoda)
in the Plio-Pleistocene
of the Southeastern
United States;
SCUM XIII:
Southern California
Unified Malacologists
by Lindsey
T. Groves;
Dealer Directory;
Cuban Landsnails:
the Weird
and the Wonderful
by Simon Aiken;
The Philadelphia
Shell Show
- 10-11 October
2009 by Paul
Callomon;
Tiny Jewels:
An introduction
to pupillid
taxonomy,
ecology, and
collection
by Jeff Nekola;
From the Red
Sea by Moti
Kovalis; Just
A Plain Black
Slug: Belocaulus
angustipes
by Jerry G.
Walls; COA
2009 Convention:
Cruising...Cruising
on the Suncoast
by Bob Pierson;
2009 Shell
Shows &
Related Events
by Donald
Dan
December
issue 2008
- Editor’s
Comments;
Molluscan
findings from
a recent dredging
expedition
off the Louisiana
coast by Emilio
Fabián
García;
The “Buzz”
on Abalones
- Two Recent
“World
Record”
Australian
Haliotis From
the Collection
of Robert
“Bob”
Kershaw of
Narooma, New
South Wales
(N.S.W.),
Australia
by Buzz Owen;
Dealer Directory;
In Memoriam;
Draft Amendment
to the COA
Constitution;
2009 Shell
Shows and
Related Events
by Donald
Dan; Book
Review: Cuba,
the Landshells
Paradise;
A Cuban Land
Shell Trip
in Pictures
by Simon Aiken;
COA 2009 Convention:
Cruising...Cruising
on the Suncoast
by Bob Pierson
Frank
September
issue 2008
- COA Academic
Grants Program:
Academic Grants
Director’s
Report by
José
Leal; In Memoriam;
Conchologists
of America
2008 Convention:
Sombreros,
Shells, and
Spurs by J.
M. Inchaustegui;
Small Western
Atlantic Buccinidae.
Part 2. The
Genus Antillophos
Woodring,
1928 by G.
Thomas Watters;
Imperiled
Seashells
by Karla Cisneros;
An extension
of the genus
Spinosipella
(Bivalvia:
Verticordiidae)
in the Gulf
of Mexico
by Emilio
Fabián
García;
Collecting
Trip to the
Skeleton Coast
Park in Namibia
by Werner
Massier; Dealer
Directory;
My Favorite
Fasciolariidae
by Zvi Orlin;
Book Review:
Shells; A
Bit More on
Sphaerocypraea
incomparabilis
(Briano, 1993)
by Donald
Dan; Conchologists
of America
2008 Convention:
San Antonio,
Texas by Lucy
Clampit; Next
Year, Come
to the Beach
for 2009!;
An Unusual
Find by Bobbi
Cordy; The
Rosy Wolfsnail
by Bill Frank
June
issue 2008
- Editor’s
Notes, Frustrations
and extensions
IV: On two
Cyphoma species
from the Gulf
of Mexico
and six geographical
extensions
by Emilio
Fabián
García,
In Memoriam,
Bishops Mills
Natural History
Centre, Massive
death assemblage
of Cepaea
nemoralis
(Linnaeus,
1758) (Mollusca,
Helicidae)
at the Pentecostal
Culvert! by
Frederick
W. Schueler,
A Bit More
on Cepaea
Land Snails
by Tom Eichhorst,
Dealer Directory,
2008 Shell
Shows and
Related Events
by Donald
Dan, Some
Favorite Murex
by Zvi Orlin,
Latirus of
Roatan by
Ted Kalafut,
A History
of the Journal
The Pariah
and Shell-Related
Books by Jerry
G. Walls by
Leslie Crnkovic,
José
Leal Names
A New Bivalve
Genus and
Two New Species
by Tom Eichhorst,
The Reluctant
Explorer by
Lori Schroeder,
Dr. E. Alison
Kay (1928
- 2008) by
Fabio Moretzsohn
March
issue 2008
- Editor’s
Notes; A Gigantic
Blister Pearl
in a Louisiana
Pearlshell
Mussel by
Jerry G. Walls;
Dr Donald
Bosch - 90
Years Old
by Robert
G. Moolenbeek;
Hermit Crab
Swarm by Phil
Fallon; Dealer
Directory;
In Memoriam;
SCUM XII:
Southern California
Unified Malacologists
by Lindsey
Groves; Book
Review: Annotated
and Illustrated
Catalogue
of Recent
Cancellariidae;
Book Review:
Lovell Augustus
Reeve (1814-1865):
malacological
author and
publisher;
Book Review:
Seashells
of Southern
Florida; New
Zealand Endemic
Mollusks by
Zvi Orlin;
Living Mactrid
Bivalves From
the Argentine
Sea by Javier
H. Signorelli;
COA Convention
5-10 July
2008; The
Art of COA
Member Arline
Reimann
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