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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.

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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