This lists all the original descriptions of the taxa represented by the type specimens on this website. Where the same specimens have subsequently been figured or cited we have endeavoured to list these publications too.
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Houart, R., Moe, C.O. & Chen, C., 2014
Chicomurex lani sp. nov. (Gastropoda: Muricidae), a new species from Taiwan and its intricate history. Bulletin of Malacology, Taiwan. 37: 1-14 |
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Hoyle, W. E., 1883
On a new species of Octopus (O. maculosus). Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh. 7: 319-322 |
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Hoyle, W. E., 1885a
Diagnoses of new species of Cephalopoda collected during the Cruise of H.M.S. “Challenger” - Part 1. The Octopoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 5(15): 222-236 |
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Hoyle, W. E., 1885c
Preliminary Report on the Cephalopoda collected during the Cruise of H.M.S. “Challenger”. Part 1. The Octopoda. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 13: 94-114 |
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Hoyle, W. E., 1886
Report of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. “Challenger” during the years 1873-1876. Zoology. Part 44 - Report on the Cephalopoda. 16. i-vi, 1-246pp |
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Huber, M., 2010
Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901pp |
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Humphrey, G., 1797
Museum Calonnianum - specification of the various articles which compose the magnificent museum of natural history by M. de Calonne in France, and lately his property, consisting of an assemblage of the most beautiful and rare subjects in entomology, conchology, ornithology, mineralogy &c. Humphrey, London. i-viii, 1-84pp |
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Issel, A., 1869
Malacologia del Mar Rosso. Editori della biblioteca malacologica. Pisa. i-xi, 1-387pp |
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Jordan, H. K., 1895
On some new species of British mollusca, from the "Triton" Expedition, with a list of other species new to the Faroe Channel. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1(6): 264-269 |
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Kantor, Y. I., Vinarski, M. V., Schileyko, A. A. & Sysoev, A. V., 2010
Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories. Ruthenica. Available online at http://www.ruthenica.com/documents/Continental_Russian_molluscs_ver2-3-1.pdf. |
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Kiener, L. C., 1845
Genre Porcelaine (Cypraea Lin.). Spécies Général et Iconographie des Cocquilles Vivantes. 1-166pp |
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Kiener, L. C., 1846-1850
Conus. 2. Species General et Iconographie des Cocquilles Vivantes. 1-379pp |
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Kilburn, R. N., 1986
Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 3. Subfamily Borsoniinae. Annals of the Natal Museum. 27(2): 633-720 |
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Killeen & Turner, 2009
Yoldiella and Potlandia (Bivalvia) from the Faroe-Shetland Chanell and Rockall Trough, Northeast Atlantic. Journal of Conchology. 39: 733 - 778 |
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Killeen, I. J. & Oliver, P. G., 2000
A new species of Abyssochrysos (Gastropoda: Loxonematoidea) from the Oman margin. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 66(1): 95-98 |
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Kobelt, W., 1891
Die Gattung Placostylus Beck (Bulimus. Neue Folge). Vol.1 (13a). In Kuster, H.C., Martini, F.W. & Chemnitz, J.H. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Nurnberg : Bauer & Raspe. 1-142pp |
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Kohn, A. J.,
Catalogue of recent and fossil Conus. The Conus biodiversity website. Available online at http://biology.burke.washington.edu/conus/catalogue/index.php. |
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Kohn, A. J., 1992
A Chronological Taxonomy of Conus, 1758-1840. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, USA. i-x , 1-315pp |
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Malaquias, M. A. E., 2004
The opisthobranch molluscs described by the Reverend Robert Boog Watson from the Madeira Archipelago (Northeast Atlantic, Portugal). Journal of Conchology. 38 (3): 231-240 |
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Marie, E., 1869
Note sur quelques coquilles de la Nouvelle Caledonie, et description d'especes nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie. 17(1): 14-19 |
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Marshall, J. T., 1893-1894
Additions to "British Conchology". Part 1. Journal of Conchology. 7: 241-265 [October 1893]; 379-385 [April 1894] |
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Marshall, J. T., 1912
Additions to "British Conchology". Part 7. Journal of Conchology. 13 (11): 324-338 |
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Martyn, T., 1784
Universal Conchology: Figures of Nondescript Shells. 2. London. 1pp |
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Melvill, J. C., 1883
Description of a new species of Cassis. Journal of Conchology. 4(2): 43-44 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1885
Description of two new species of shells. Journal of Conchology. 4(10): 316 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1888a
Description of six new species of Pecten. Journal of Conchology. 5(9): 279-281 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1888b
Descriptions of fifteen new species of Mitra. Journal of Conchology. 5(9): 281-288 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1888c
Description of a new species of Cypraea. Journal of Conchology. 5(9): 288-289 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1888d
Notes on Mitra (Costellaria) rugosa (Swainson). Journal of Conchology. 5(11): 332-335 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1888f
A survey of the genus Cypraea (Linn.), its nomenclature, geographical distribution, and distinctive affinities; with descriptions of two new species, and several varieties. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. Series 4, 1: 184-252 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1889
Descriptions of three new species of shells. Journal of Conchology. 6(1): 31-33 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1891a
Descriptions of eleven new species belonging to the genera Columbarium, Pisania, Minolia, Liotia and Solarium. Journal of Conchology. 6(12): 405-411 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1891b
An historical account of the genus Latrius (Montfort) and its dependencies, with descriptions of eleven new species, and a catalogue of Latirus and Peristernia. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. Series 4, 4: 365-411 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1891c
Description of a new species of Latirus. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. Series 4, 5: 92-93 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1893a
Description of a new species of Mitra. The Conchologist. 2(6): 140-141 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1893b
Descriptions of twenty five new species of marine shells from Bombay. Collected by Alexander Abercrombie, Esq. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. Series 4, 7: 52-67 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1895
Descriptions of new species of Pleurotoma, Mitra and Latirus. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1(5): 221-223 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1899b
Description of a new species of Mitra (M. baldwinii) from the Hawaiian Islands. Journal of Malacology. 7(3): 67-68 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1900
A revision of the textile cones, with description of C. cholmondeleyi n.sp. Journal of Conchology. 9(10): 303-311 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1903
The genera Pseudoliva and Macron. Journal of Conchology. 10(10-11): 320-330 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1905
Four colour varieties of Cypraea. Journal of Conchology. 11(6): 192 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1911
An enumeration of the additions made to the genus Latirus Montfort since 1891, with descriptions of of three new species. Journal of Conchology. 13(6): 164-178 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1916
Notes on the genus Harpa. Journal of Conchology. 15(1-2): 25-40 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1917
Note on Conus melvilli Sowerby. Journal of Conchology. 15: 222 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1918
Descriptions of thirty-four species of marine mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Arabian Sea, collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9(1): 137-158 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1919a
Description of Bathytoma regnans n.sp., from the Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 13(3): 68 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1919b
Description of Morum praeclarum, sp.nov., with remarks on the recent species of the genus. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 13(3): 69-72 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1925
Descriptions of nine new species of Mitridae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 16(5): 215-219 |
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Melvill, J. C., 1927
Descriptions of eight new species of the family Turridae and of a new species of Mitra. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 17(4): 149-155 |
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Melvill, J. C. & Abercrombie, A., 1893
The marine Mollusca of Bombay. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. Series 4, 7: 17-51 |
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Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R., 1895
Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs. Hadfield, with list of species. Part 1. Journal of Conchology. 8: 84-130; addenda 131-132 |
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Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R., 1896
Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs. Hadfield, with list of species. Part 2. Journal of Conchology. 8(9): 273-315 |
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Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R., 1903
Descriptions of sixty-eight new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service, 1901-1903. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7(12): 289-324 |
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Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R., 1914
Notes on mollusca collected in the north-west Falklands by Rupert Vallentin, F.L.S. with descriptions of six new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 8(13): 110-136 |
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Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J.-P., 2011
Fossil and recent Muricidae of the world. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 1-648pp |
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Moolenbeek, R. G. & Coomans, H. E., 1982
Studies on Conidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). 2. Conus pusio Sowerby I (non Hwass) and C. melvilli Sowerby III. Bulletin Zoologisch Museum. Universiteit van Amsterdam. 8(17): 145-148 |
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Morelet, A., 1857b
Appendice à la Conchyliologie de l’Algérie (Suite). Voyage de M. Grasset à El-Aghouat. Journal de Conchyliologie. 6(4): 369-374 |
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Morelet, A., 1864
Descriptions de coquilles inédites. Journal de Conchyliologie. 12(2): 155-159 |
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Morelet, A., 1866
Coquilles nouvelles recueillies par le Dr Fr. Welwitsch dans l’Afrique équatoriale, et particulièrement dans les provinces portugaises d’Angola et de Benguella. Journal de Conchyliologie. 14(2): 153-163 |
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Morelet, A., 1867
Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. Voyage du Friederich Welwitsch exécuté par ordre du governement Portugais dans les Royaumes d’Angola et de Benguella (Afrique equinoxiale). Paris. 102 |
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Morelet, A., 1877
Excursion conchyliologique dans l'ile d'Anjouan (Johanna). Journal de Conchyliologie. 25(4): 325-347 |
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Morelet, A., 1879
Description d'un Bulime nouveau d'Abyssinie. Journal de Conchyliologie. 27(4): 315-316 |
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Morelet, A., 1880
La fauna malacologique du Maroc en 1880. Journal de Conchyliologie. 28(1): 5-83 |
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Morelet, A., 1885
Coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles de l'Afrique équinoxiale. Journal de Conchyliologie. 33: 20-33 |
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Morelet, A., 1889a
Coquilles nouvelles de l'Afrique méridionale. Journal de Conchyliologie. 37: 5-20 |
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Morelet, A., 1889b
Note rectificative. Journal de Conchyliologie. 37: 199-200 |
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Morelet, A. & Drouët, H., 1857
Conchologiae Azoricae prodromus novarum specierum diagnoses sistens. Journal de Conchyliologie. 6: 148-153 |
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Neiber, M. T., 2015
On the generic placement of the narrow-range endemic ‘Helix’ arguineguinensis Seddon & Aparicio, 1998 from Gran Canaria (Canary Islands). Zootaxa. 3981(2): 296–300 |
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Neubert, E., 2002
The non-Alopiine Clausiliidae of Africa, with a note on Clausilia giraudi Bouguignat (Mollusca, Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae). Collectanea Malacologica. Festschrift für Gerhard Falkner. 253-275 |
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Nevill, G. & H., 1871
Descriptions of new mollusca from the Eastern regions. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 40(2): 1-11 |
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Noronha, A. C., 1923
A new species of Ochthephila from Porto Santo. Journal of Conchology. 17(3): 84-86 |
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Oliver, G., Rodrigues, C. F. & Cunha, M. R., 2011
Chemosymbiotic bivalves from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz, NE Atlantic, with descriptions of new species of Solemyidae, Lucinidae and Vesicomyidae. ZooKeys. 113: 1-38 |
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Oliver, P. G., 1982
A new species of Cancellariid gastropod from Antarctica with a description of the radula. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin. 57: 15-20 |
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Oliver, P. G., 1983
Notoficula Thiele, a neotenous genus of eratoid gastropod from Antarctica. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin. 61: 1-6 |
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Oliver, P. G., 1986
A new lucinid bivalve from the Niger Delta and an appraisal of the Loripes group (Bivalvia, Lucinacea). Basteria. 50: 47-64 |
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Oliver, P. G., 1990a
A new species of Noetiella (Bivalvia: Arcacea) from Hong Kong. Proceedings of the 2nd International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China. Hong Kong 1986. Edited by B. Morton. 413-417 |
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Oliver, P. G., 2001
Functional morphology and description of a new species of Amygdalum (Mytiloidea) from the oxygen minimum zone of the Arabian Sea. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 67(2): 225-241 |
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Oliver, P. G., 2012
Taxonomy of some Galeommatoidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia) associated with deep-sea echinoids: A reassessment of the bivalve genera Axinodon Verrill & Bush, 1898 and Kelliola Dall, 1899 with descriptions of new genera Syssitomya gen. nov. and Ptilomyax gen. nov. European Journal of Taxonomy. 12: 1-24 |
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Oliver, P. G., 2013
Description of Atopomya dolobrata gen. et sp. nov.: first record of bacterial symbiosis in the Saxicavellinae (Bivalvia). Journal of Conchology. 41(3): 359-367 |
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Oliver, P. G., 2014
“TUBULAR GILLS” Extreme gill modification in the Thyasiroidea with the description of Ochetoctena tomasi gen. et sp. nov. (Bivalvia: Thyasiroidea). Zoosystematics and Evolution. 90(2): 121–132 |
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Oliver, P. G. , 1995
Bivalvia. In Dance, S. P. (Ed.), Seashells of Eastern Arabia. Motivate Publishing, Dubai. (p. 194-281) 296pp |
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Oliver, P. G. & Abou-Zeid, M, 1986
Barbierella (Bivalvia: Lucinacea) a tethyan relict species living in the Red Sea. Journal of Conchology. 32(4): 221-224 |
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Oliver, P. G. & Chesney, H. C. G., 1994
Taxonomy of Arabian Bivalves. Part 1. Arcoidea. Journal of Conchology. 35(1): 17-31 |
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Oliver, P. G. & Chesney, H. C. G., 1997
Taxonomy and descriptions of Bivalves (Lucinoidea, Galeommatoidea, Carditoidea, Cardioidea, Tellinoidea & Myoidea) from the Arabian Sea. Journal of Conchology. 36(1): 51-76 |
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Oliver, P. G. & Drewery, J., 2013
New species of chemosymbiotic clams (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae and Thyasiridae) from a putative ‘seep’ in the Hatton–Rockall Basin, north-east Atlantic. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. doi:10.1017/S0025315413001136; 1-15 |
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Oliver, P. G. & Glover, E., 1996
Paphia (Protapes) (Bivalvia: Veneroidea) in the Arabian Sea, with the description of a new species. Journal of Conchology. 35(5): 389-405 |
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Oliver, P. G. & Holmes, A. M., 2004
Cryptic Bivalves with descriptions of new species from the Rodrigues lagoon. Journal of Natural History. 38: 3175-3227 |
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Oliver, P. G. & Holmes, A. M., 2006a
A new species of Lucinoma (Bivalvia: Lucinoidea) from the oxygen minimum zone of the Oman Margin, Arabian Sea. Journal of Conchology. 39(1): 63-77 |
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Oliver, P. G. & Holmes, A. M., 2006b
New species of Thyasiridae (Bivalvia) from chemosynthetic communities in the Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Conchology. 39(2): 175-183 |
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Oliver, P. G. & Levin, L., 2006
A new species of the family Thyasiridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the oxygen minimum zone of the Pakistan margin. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 86: 411-416 |
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Oliver, P. G. & Lützen, J., 2011
An anatomically bizarre, fluid-feeding, Galeommatoidean bivalve: Draculamya porobranchiata gen. et sp. nov. (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Journal of Conchology. 40(4): 365-392 |
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Oliver, P. G. & Picken, G. B., 1984
Prosobranch gastropods from Signy Island, Antarctica: Buccinacea and Muricacea. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin. 62: 95-115 |
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Oliver, P. G. & Taylor, J. D., 2012
Bacterial symbiosis in the Nucinellidae (Bivalvia: Solemyida) with descriptions of two new species. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 78: 81-91 |
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Oliver, P. G. & Zuschin, M., 2001
Minute Veneridae and Kelliellidae from the Red and Arabian Seas with a redescription of Kellia miliacea Issel, 1869. Journal of Conchology. 37(2): 213-230 |
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Oliver, P. G., Hallan, A, Jayachandran, P. R., Joseph, P., Sanu, V. F., Bijoy Nandan, S. , 2018
Taxonomy of myid bivalves from fragmented brackish-water habitats in India, with a description of a new genus Indosphenia (Myida, Myoidea, Myidae). ZooKeys. 799: 21-46 |
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Oliver, P. G., Vestheim, H., Antunes, A. & Kaartvedt, S., 2014
Systematics, functional morphology and distribution of a bivalve (Apachecorbula muriatica gen. et sp. nov.) from the rim of the ‘Valdivia Deep’ brine pool in the Red Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 1-13 |
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Pain, T., 1950
A new species of Pomacea (Limnopomus) from Venezuela. Journal of Conchology. 23: 109-111 |
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Pain, T., 1951
On the type of Pila nyanzae (Smith, 1892). Proceedings of the Malacological Society. 28(6): 230-231 |
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Pain, T., 1952
Notes on Pila ovata (Oliver) and its distribution in Africa. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines . 46: 286-292 |
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Pain, T., 1955
Notes on some New Caledonian Placostylus (with descriptions of 1 new species and 4 sub-species). Journal de Conchyliologie. 95(1): 11-19 |