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    • UK collecting
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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:
  • Netherlands Malacological Society
Dealers who support the Club shows, magazine and website:
  • Algoa Bay Shells
  • Atoll Specimen Shells
  • Australian Seashells
  • Conchology, Inc. (Guido and Philippe Poppe)
  • Cowries Felix Lorenz
  • De Donder Shells
  • Eatons Seashells
  • Simons Specimen Shells (Simon Aiken)
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

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