Periodically the Society has produced 'Special Publications'. These have been produced in the same format as the Journal of Conchology but with a particular theme.
No. 1: Marine Mollusca described by John Gwyn Jeffreys, with the location of the type material. |
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Author: Anders Warén Published: February 1980 This extended paper deals with the new taxa of marine molluscs described by the British conchologist John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809-1885). |
No. 2: Molluscan Conservation: A strategy for the 21st. Century. |
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Editors: Ian J. Killeen, Mary B. Seddon & Anna M. Holmes Published: June 1998. This second Special Publication of the Journal of Conchology comprises a proceedings volume of papers presented at the Molluscan Conservation Conference held at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK, in November 1996. All of the papers presented were directed towards conservation of molluscs particularly within Europe, but an international perspective is covered by papers on conservation in East Africa, South Africa and North America. Introductory papers give a resumé of international legislation on molluscan conservation. |
No. 3: Molluscan Biodiversity and Conservation. |
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Editors: Ian J. Killeen & Mary B. Seddon Published: July 2004. This third Journal of Conchology Special Publication comprises the proceedings volume of papers presented at the symposium on Molluscan Biodiversity and Conservation held as part of the World Congress of Malacology (Unitas Malacologica), Vienna, Austria, in August 2001. The collection of 16 papers in this volume cover a wide range of molluscan biodiversity and conservation topics including: the role of museum collections, conservation of island faunas. traditional and novel techniques for assessing biodiversity and setting conservation priorities. |
No. 4: An annotated list of the non-marine molluscs of Britain and Ireland (2008 and 2020 versions) |
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Authors: Roy Anderson (2008); Roy Anderson & Ben Rowson (2020) Published: 2008, 2020 This non-marine mollusc checklist for Britain & Ireland was revised and reprinted after being published in the Journal of Conchology in 2005 (Anderson, 2005). The revised list (Anderson, 2008) is available here. This checklist was revised in 2020 by Anderson & Rowson (2020). This was published online as a PDF (before online access to the Journal of Conchology). The 2020 version is currently the most recent version of the list, and is available as a PDF here, and as an XLS file here. The XLS file indicates the changes made between the 2008 and 2020 versions. |