Links
We welcome suggestions for links to other shell club sites and relevant information.
Shell clubs:
- BSCC on Facebook
- The Young Shell Collectors' Club (Facebook group)
- Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland
- Conchologists of America
- Jacksonville Shell Club
- Sydney Shell Collectors' Club
- Auckland Shell Club
- Brisbane Shell Club
- Wellington Shell Club
- Shell Collectors SA (South Africa)
- Belgian Society for Conchology
- Sociedad Española de Malacología
- Czech Conch Collectors' Club
Identification assistance and other information:
- Hardy's Internet Guide to Marine Gastropods – with many pictures
- Of Sea and Shore – a blog by Tom Rice, editor of the magazine of the same name
- Conchology, Inc. – Guido and Philippe Poppe's site, with many pictures
- Seashell Collector.com
- The Cone Collector – a free quarterly online magazine devoted to Conidae
- Update to Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae by Mike Filmer (2001) – with illustrations of types, online at The Cone Collector
- Cone Collectors' Guide – an illustrated checklist with descriptions of living Conidae
- Updates and corrections to Illustrated Catalog of the Living Cone Shells by John Tucker and Manuel Tenorio (2013) – covering new species and developments in cone taxonomy
- Classification and species list of British marine Bivalvia – at the National Museum of Wales
- British non-marine molluscs – with family descriptions
- Eocene and Oligocene fossils – an illustrated collection compiled by Alan Morton
- Invertebrate Ireland – checklist of Irish non-marine molluscs
- National Biodiversity Network – interactive distribution maps for all British marine and non-marine molluscs
- World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
- British Marine Mollusca by Ian F. Smith – detailed species accounts with images of shells and live specimens
Regional collectors' sites:
- Britain – John Fisher
- California and Baja – Rick Negus
- Florida – an article about Harry Lee
- New South Wales – Des Beechey
- New Zealand – Peter Poortman
Lists of collectors:
Dealers who support the Club shows, magazine and website:
Other sites of conchological interest:
- Man and Mollusc
- Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum, USA
- Nishinomiya Shell Museum, Japan
- The Natural History Musem, La Rochelle, France – the museum has an extensive illustrated online catalogue of the George Richard collection of Conidae, a very useful reference
- www.SeaShellRelated.com – an amazing variety of things with a seashell theme
