Worldwide Shell Reference Books & Articles


Books By Family 
(All major and some minor gastropod families):

Acteonidae

Rudman, W.B., 1972.  Structure and functioning of the gut in the Bullomorpha (Ophistrobranchia) II Acteonidae, Journal Natural History 6, 311-324

 

Amathinidae

Ponder, W.F., 1987.  The anatomy and relationships of the pyramidallacean limpet Amathina tricarinata, Asian Marine Biology 4, 1-34

 

Architectonicidae

Bieler, R., 1993.  Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific, Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 30, 376

Garrard, T.A., 1977.  A revision of the Australian Architectonicidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca), Records of the Australian Museum 31, 506-585

 

Barleeidae

Ponder, W.F., 1983.  Review of the genera of the Barleeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rissoacea), Records of the Australian Museum 35, 231-281

 

Batillariidae

Ewers, W.H. and Rose, C.R., 1956.  Polymorphisms in Velacumantus australis (Gastropoda: Potamididae) and its relationship to parasitism, Australian Journal of Zoology 14, 49-64

Houbrick, 1988.  Malacological Review, Supp 4, 88-128

McClatchie, S., 1979.  Grazing of Zeacumanthus subcarinatus (Gastropoda) on Ulva lactuca, Mauri Ora 7, 39-45

 

Buccinidae

Cernohorsky, W.O., 1981.  Family Buccinidae

Egorov and Barsukov, 1994.  Recent Ancistrolepidinae (Buccinidae)

Golikov, A.N., 1980.  Buccinidae moluscs of the world oceans

Ponder, W.F. and Warén, A., 1988.  Malacological Review Supplement 4, 288-326

Ponder, W.F., 1973.  Journal Malacological Society of Australia 2 (3): 249-265

 

Bubble Shells

Allomon, W.D., 1990.  Review of the Bullia group

Breure and Eskens.  Bulimidae notes and descriptions

Rudman, W.B., 1971.  The genus Bullina in New Zealand, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2, 195-203

Rudman, W.B., 1972.  Studies on the primitive opisthobranch genera Bullina Férussac and Micromelo Pilsbury, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 51, 105-119

Rudman, W.B., 1972.  The anatomy of the genus Hydatina and the functioning of the mantle cavity and alimentary canal, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 51, 121-139

Willan, R.C., 1977.  The nomenclature of three Pacific Bulla species, Journal of the Australian Malacological Society 4, 57-68

 

Bursidae

Beu, A.G. and Cernohorsky, W.O., 1986.  Taxonomy of gastropods of the families Ranellidae (=Cymatiidae) and Bursidae.  Pt 1 Adoption of Ranellidae and review of Linatella Gray, 1857, New Zealand Journal of Zoology 13, 241-266

Beu, A.G., 1981.  Australian gastropods of the familyBursidae.  Part 1.  The families of Tonnacea, the genera of Bursidae and a revisionof some species previously assigned to Tutufa Jousseaume, 1881, Records of the Australian Museum 33 (5), 258-324

Beu, A.G., 1987.  Taxonomy of gastropods of the families Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae.  Pt 2 Descriptions of 14 new modern Indo-West Pacific species and subspecies, with revisions of related taxa, New Zealand Journal of Zoology 13, 273-355

Cossignani, T., 1994.  Bursidae of the world

Houbrick, J.R. and Fretter, V., 1969.  Some aspects of the functional anatomy and biology of Cymatium and Bursa, Proceedings Malacological Society London 38, 415-429

Laursen, D., 1981.  Taxonomy and distribution of teleplanic prosobranch larvae in the North Atlantic, Dana Report 89, 1-43

 

Caecidae

Moore, D.R., 1962.  The systematic position of the family Caecidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Carribean 12, 695-701

Moore, D.R., 1968.  Observations on the Caecidae, American Malacological Union, Annual Report 1968, 39

 

Calyptraeidae

Hoagland, K.E., 1984.  Use of molecular genetics to distinguishspecies of the gastropod genus Crepidula (Prosobranchia: Calyptraeidae)

 

Cancellariidae

Beu, A.G. and Maxwell, P.A., 1987.  A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884, New Zealand Geological Survey Palcontological Bulletin 54, 1-140

Garrard, T.A., 1975.  A revision of Australian Cancellariidae, Records of the Australian Museum 30 (1), 1-62

Laseron, C.F., 1955.  The New South Wales Cancellariidae, Records of the Australian Museum 23, 267-272

Petit, R.E. and Harasewych, M.G., 1990.  Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidae.  Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia), Nautilus Supplement 1, 1-69

Ponder, W.F., 1973.  The origin and evolution of the Neogastropoda, Malacologia 12 (2), 295-338

 

Capulidae

Ponder, W., 1987.  Asian marine biology, 4, 1034

Ponder and Warén, 1988.  Malacological Review Supp. 4, 300

Vaught, 1989.  Iredale & McMichael (1962)

 

Cassidae

Abbott, R.T., 1968.  The helmet shells of the world.  Part 1, Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2 (9), 7-201

Hughes, R.N. and Hughes, H.P.I., 1981.  Morphological and behavioural aspects of feeding in the Cassidae (Tonnacea), Mesogastropoda, Malacologia 20, 385-402

Hughes, R.N., 1985.  Notes on the feeding behaviour of Tonna Zonatum (Tonnidae) and Phalium bisulcatum (Cassidae) (Tonnacea), in Proceedings Second International Workshop on the Macrofauna of Hong Kong and Southern China, pp. 623-626 Hong Kong University Press

Krepl, K., 1997.  Recent Cassidae

Laursen, D. 1981.  Taxonomy and distribution of teleplanic prosobranch larvae in the North Atlantic, Dana Report 89, 1-43

Warén, A. and Bouchet, P. 1990.  Laubierinidae and Pisanianurinae (Ranellidae), two new deep-sea taxa of the Tonnoidea (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia), Veliger 33 (1), 956-102

 

Cerithidae

Houbrick, R.S., 1978.  Family Cerithidae in the Indo-Pacific Part 1

Houbrick, R.S., 1980.  Review of the deep-sea genus Argyropeza (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Cerithiidae), Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 321, 1-30

Houbrick, R.S., 1985.  The genus Clypeomorus Jousseaume (Cerithiidae: Prosobranchia), Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 403, 1-131

Houbrick, R.S., 1990.  Review of the genus Colina H. and A. Adams, 1854 (Cerithiidae: Prosobranchia), Nautilus 104, 35-52

Houbrick, R.S., 1992.  Monograph of the genus Cerithium Bruguiére in the Indo-Pacific, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 510, 1-211

Houbrick, R.S., 1993.  Phylogenetic relationships and genetic review of the Bittiinae (Prosobrancia: Cerithoidea), Malacologia 35, 261-313

 

Cerithiopsidae

Cotton, B., 1951.  Austrlian recent and tertiary Mollusca, family Cerithiopsidae, Records of the South Australian Museum 9, 383-395

Houbrick, R.S., 1987.  Description of a new giant Ataxocerithium species from Australia with remarks on the systematic placement of the genus (Prosobranchia: Cerithiopsidae), The Nautilus 101 (4), 155-161

Laseron, C.F., 1951.  Revision of the NSW Cerithiopsidae, Australian Zoologist 11, 351-368

Laseron, C.F., 1956.  The family Cerithiopsidae (Mollusca) from the Solanderian and Dampierian zoogeographical provinces, AustralianJournal Marine and Freshwater Research 7, 151-182

Loch, I., 1992.  Ataxocerithium, Australian Shell News 78, 1-3

 

Cingulopsidae

Ponder, W.F. and Yoo, E.K., 1980.  A review of the genera of the Cingulopsidae with a revision of the Australian and tropical Indo-Pacific species, Records of the Australian Museum 33 (1), 1-88

 

Columbellidae

Cotton, 1957.  A checklist, privately published

Radwin, G.E., 1967.  Veliger 19, 403-417; ibid 20, 328-344

Radwin, G.E., 1977.  The family Columbellidae in the western Atlantic, Veliger 19, 403-417

Radwin, G.E., 1978.  The family Collumbellidae I the western Atlantic Part 11b the Pyreninae (continued), Veliger 20, 328-344

 

Conidae

Cernohorsky, W.O., 1964.  The Conidae of Fiji, Veliger 7, 61-94, pls 12-18

Cotton, B.C., 1945.  Catalogue of the cone shells in the South Australian Museum

Crista-Galli, 1980.  Deadly cones, fish-hunting snails

da Motta, A.J., 1991.  A systematic classification of the gastropod family Conidae at the generic level, Roma, La Conchiglia 44 pp

Endean, R. and Rudkin, C., 1963.  Studies on the venoms of some Conidae, Toxican 1, 49-64

Estival, 1981.  Cone shells of New Caledonia and Vanuatu

Filmer, R.M., 2001.  Catalogue of nomenclature and taxonomy in the living Conidae, Backhuys

Jarrett and Slimming, 1972.  Cone shells of Seychelles

Keegan, H.L. and MacFarlane, W.F. (ed) Poisonous animals and noxious plants of the Pacific area, Oxford, Pergamon Press

Kohn, A.I., 1992.  A chronological taxonomy of Conus, 1758-1840

Kohn, A.J.  Type specimens and identity of the described species of conus, The Nautilus continuing subscription

Kohn, A.J., 1959.  The ecology of the genus Conus in Hawaii, Ecological Monographs 28, 47-90

Kohn, A.J., 1963.  Venomous marine snails of the genus Conus, Venomous and                         pp 83-96

Marsh and Rippingale, 1974.  Cone shells of the world 3rd ed.

Marsh, J.A. and Rippingale, O.H., 1968.  Cone shells of the world, 2nd ed, Brisbane, Jacaranda Press, 166 pp 22 col. pls

Pin and Leung Tack, 1996.  Cones of Senegal

Rockel, D., Korn, W. and Kohn, A., 1995.  Manual of the living Conidae Vol. 1 Indo-Pacific

Rockel, Rolán and Monteiro, 1981.  Cone shells from Cape Verde Islands

Walls, J.G., 1979.  Cone shells – a synopsis of the living Conidae, New Jersey, T.F.H. Publications, 1011 pp

 

Conoidae

Taylor, J., Kantor, Y., and Sysoev, A., 1993.  Foregut anatomy, feeding mechanisms, relationships and reclassification of the Conoidea (= Toxoglossa) (Gastropoda), Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London 58, 125-170

 

Coralliophilidae

Clover, P., 1983.  Latiaxis catalog

D’Attillo, A., 1978.  Catalogue of Corralliophilidae

Kosuge, S. and Suzuki, M., 1985.  Illustrated catalogue of Latiaxis and its related groups – family Coralliophilidae

 

Costellariidae

Cernohorsky, 1980.  Revision of the Australian and New Zealand territory and recent temperate species of the family Costellariidae, Records of the Auckland Institute Museum 16, 109-169

   

Cypraeidae

Allan, J., 1960.  Cowry shells of world seas, Georgian House, Melbourne, 170 pp

Burgess, C.M., 1970.  The living cowries, A.S. Barnes and Co., South Brunswick, N.J.

Burgess, C.M., 1985.  Cowries of the world, Gordon Verhoef Seacomber Publications, Cape Town, 289 pp

Chatney, 1982.  Niger and Rostrate cowries of New Caledonia

Cossignani, V. and Passamonti, M., 1991.  Cipraeidae – systematic catalogue synonyms and values, Mostra Mondiale Malacologia, Cupra Marittima, Italy, 135 pp

Heiman, E.L.  Cowries of East Sinai

Iredale, T., 1935   Australian cowries, Australian Zoologies 8, 96-135 pls 8-9

Iredale, T., 1939.  Australian cowries Part II, Australian Zoologist 9 (3), 297-323 pls 28-29

Kay, E.A., 1960.  Generic revision of the Cypraeinae, Proceedings Malacological Society London 33, 278-287

Liltveld, 1989.  Cowries and their relatives of southern Africa

Lorenz, F. and Hubert, A., 2000.  A guide to worldwide cowries (revised edition)

Lorenz, F., 2001.  Monographof living Zoila, 187 pp

O’Malley, J., 1971.  Identification guide – cowries of the Jeddah-Red Sea area, Sea and Shore Publications 140 pp

Schilder, M. and Schilder, F.A., 1971.  A catalogue and bibliography of Triviacea and Cypraeacea, Memoirs Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 2nd Ser., 85, 1-246

Slimming and Jarrett, 1971.  Cowry shells of the Seychelles

Taylor, J. and Walls, J., 1979.  Cowries

Verdcourt, 1954.  Cowries of the east African coast

Wilson, B.R., 1985.  Direct development in southern Australian cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae), Australian Journal Marine and Freshwater Research 36, 267-280

Wolz and Belcher.  Collecting cowries in Dar es Salaam

 

Dialidae

Ponder, W.F. and de Keyzer, R., 1992.  A revision of the genus Diala (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea: Dialidae), Invertebrate Zoology 6, 1019-1075

 

Eatonellidae

Ponder, W.F. and Yoo, E.K., 1977.  A revision of the Eatonellidae of Australia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Littorinacea), Records of the Australian Museum 31, 606-658

 

Ellobioidea

Shea, M., 1991.  Elusive Ellobiids, Australian Shell News 76, 1-2

 

Emblandidae

Ponder, W.F., 1985.  The anatomy and relationships of Emblanda emblematica (Hedley) (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Emblandidae n. fam), Records of the Australian Museum 37, 343-351

 

Epitoniidae

Bosch, H.F., 1965.  A gastropod parasite of solitary corals in Hawaii, Pacific Science 19, 267-268

Iredale, T., 1936.  Australian molluscan notes No. 2, Records of the Australian Museum 19, 294-306

Loch, I., 1982.  Queensland epitoniids, Australian Shell News No. 39, 3-6

Robertons, R., 1983.  Observations on the wentletrap epitonium albidum in the West Indies, American Malacological Bulletin 1, 1-12

Robertson, R., 1963.  Wentletraps feeding on anenomes and corals, Proceedings of the Malacological Society London 35, 51-61

Robertson, R., 1966.  Coelenterate-associated prosobranch gastropods, American Malacological Union Annual Reports 1965, 6-8

Robertson, R., 1983.  Axial shell rib counts as systematic characters in Epitonium, Nautilus 97, 116-118

Vaught, 1989.  A classification of the living mollusca, American Malacologists Inc., Melbourne, Florida

Weil, A., Brown, L. and Neville, B., 1999.  The wentletrap book

 

Eulimidae

Wáren, A., 1983.  Generic revision of family Eulimidae

 

Ficidae

Beu, 1981.  Records Australian Museum 33 (5), 248-324

Warén and Bouchet, 1990.  Veliger 33 (1), 56-102

Poppe, G. and Verhaeghe, M., 2000.  Conchologcial iconography Vol. 3, Ficidae

 

Fissurellidae

Herbert, D.G., 1991.  Foraminivory in a Puncturella (Gastropoda: Fissurellidae), Journal of Molluscan Studies 57, 127-129

Herbert, D.G., 1991.  Foraminivory in a Puncturella (Gastropoda: Fissurellidae), Journal of Molluscan Studies 57, 127-129

McLean, J.H., 1984.  A case for derivation of the Fissurellidae from the Bellerophontacea, Malacologia 25, 3-20

McLean,J.H., 1984.  Systematics of Fissurella in the Peruvian and Magellanic faunal provinces (Gastropoda: Prosobrancia), Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 354, 1-70

Ponder, W.F., 1975.  The identity of the common keyhole limpet of southeastern Australia (Fissurellidae), Australian Zoologist 18, 215-218

 

Fossaridae

Houbrick, 1990.  Acoreana, Supp. 59-73

Ponder and Warén, 1988.  Malacological Review Supp. 4, 295

 

Galeommatidae

Laseron, C.F., 1956.  A revision of the New South Wales Leptonidae, Records of the Australian Museum 24, 7-24

 

Haminoeidae

Rudman, W.B., 1971.  On the opisthobranch genus Haminoea Turton and Kingston, Pacific Science 25, 545-559

 

Harpidae

Dance, P.,  Poppe, G., Brulet, T. and Gron, K., 1999.  Conchological iconography Vol. 1 Harpidae

Hughes, R.N. and Emerson, W.K., 1987.  Anatomical and taxonomic characters of Harpa and Morum, Veliger 29 (4), 349-358

Hughes, R.N., 1986.  Anatomy and taxonomic displacement of the genus Morum, Veliger 29 (1), 91-100

Rehder, H., 1973.  The family Harpidae of the world, Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3 (16), 207-274

 

Hipponicidae

Knudson, 1991 in Wells et al.  The marine flora and fauna of Albany, WA, Western Australian Museum 2, 641-660

Ponder and Warén, 1988.  Malacological Review Supp. 4, 299

 

Hydatina

Rudman, W.B., 1972.  The anatomy of the genus Hydatina and the functioning of the mantle cavity and alimentary canal, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 51, 121-139

 

Hydrococcidae

Ponder, W.F., 1982.  The anatomy and relationships of Hydrococcus brazieri (T. Woods), Journal Molluscan Studies 48, 64-79

 

Lamellariidae

Allan, J.K., 1958.  Some species of Lamellariidae from the eastern Australian coast, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2, 48-57

Behrens, D.W., 1980.  The Lamellariidae of the north eastern Pacific, The Veliger 22, 323-339

Numanami, H. and Okutani, T., 1991.  Lamellariid gastropods collected by Japanese Antarctic research expeditions from near Syowa Station and Breid Bay, Antarctica, Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on polar biology 4, 50-68

 

Litiopidae

Houbrick, R.S., 1987.  Anatomy of Alaba and Litopa (Prosobranchia: Litiopidae) systematic implications, Nautilus 101 (1) 9-18

   

Littorinidae

Bandal & Kadolsky, 1982.  Veliger 25, 1-42

Ponder, W.F. and Rosewater, J.R., 1979.  Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 92 (2), 773-782

Reid, D.G., 1986.  The Littorinid molluscs of mangrove forests in the Indo-Pacific region.  The genus Littoraria, British Museum of Natural History Publ. No. 978: 228 pp

Reid, D.G., 1988.  The genera Bembicium and Rissellopsis (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in Australia and New Zealand, Records of the Australian Museum 40, 91-150

Reid, D.G., 1996.  Systematics and evolution of Littorina

Rosewater, J.R., 1970.  Indo-West Pacific region, Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2 (11), 417-506; 1972 ibid 2 (12), 507-533

Rosewater, J.R., 1970.  The family Littorinidae in the Indo-Pacific Part 1.  The subfamily Littorininae, Indo-Pacific Mullosca 2 (1), 417-506

Rosewater, J.R., 1972.  The family Littorinidae in the Indo-Pacific Part II.  The subfamilies Tectariinae and Echininae, Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2 (12), 507-528

Rosewater, J.R., 1980.  Subspecies of the gastropod Littorina Scabra, Nautilus 94, 158-162

 

Lottiidae

Macpherson, J.H., 1955.  Preliminary revision of the families Patellidae and Acmaeidae in Australia, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 67, 229-259

Ponder, W.F. and Creese, R.G., 1980.  A revision of the Australian species of Notoacmea, Collisella and Patelloida (Acmaeidae), Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 4, 167-208

Lindberg, D.R., 1986.  Name changes in the Acmaeidae, The Veliger 29, 142-148

Lindberg, D.R., Acmaeidae (California)

Oliver, W.R.B., 1926.  Australasian Patelloididae, Transactions N.Z. Institute 56:547-582

Ponder, W.F. and Creese, R.G., 1980.  A revision of the Australian species of Notoacmea, Collisella and Patelloida (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Acmaeidae),Journal Malacological Society Australia 4 (4): 167-208

 

 

Mitridae

Caillez, J.C., 1995.  An index forMitridae studies 3rd edition

Cernohorsky, W.O., 1970.  Systematics of the families Mitridae and Volutomitridae, Bull Auckland Institute and Museum No. 8, 190 pp (includes the Costellariidae as the subfamily Vexillinae)

Cernohorsky, W.O., 1976.  The Mitridae of the world.  Part 1.  The subfamily Mitrinae, Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3 (17), 273-528

Cernohorsky, W.O., 1991.  The Mitridae of the world.  Part 2.  the subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindroitrinae, Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4, 1-164

Pechar, P., Prior, C. and Parkinson, B. (undated)  Mitre shells from the Pacific and Indian Oceans, 56 colour plates, Robert Brown & Associates, Bathurst

Pechar, Prior and Parkinson, 1980.  Mitre shells from the Pacific and Indian Oceans

 

Modulidae

Houbrick, 1980.  Malacologia 20 (1), 117-142

Ponder & Warén, 1988.  Malacological Review Supp. 4, 294

 

Muricidae

Cernohorsky, W.O., 1967.  The Muricidae of Fiji.  Part 1.  Subfamilies Muricinae and Tritonaliinae, Veliger 10, 111-132 (1969)  Part 2.  Subfamily Thaidinae.  ibid 11 (4), 293-315

D’Attilio, A. and Hertz, C.M., 1988.  An illustrated catalogue of the family Typhidae Cossmann, 1903, Festivus, Supp. 20, 1-73

Fair, R.H., 1976.  The Murex book: an illustrated catalogue of recent Muricidae (Muricinae: Muricopsinae: Ocenebrinae)

Houart, R.  A review of the recent Mediterranean and northeastern Atlantic species of Muricidae

Houart, R., 1994.  Illustrated catalogue of recent species of Muricidae named since 1971

Ponder, W.F., 1972.  Notes on some Australian genera and species of the family Muricidae, Journal Malacological Society Australia 2 (3), 215-248

Radwin, G.E. and D’Attilio, A., 1976.  Murex shells of the world, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 284 pp

Rippengale, 1987.  Murex shells

Trondle and Houart, 1992.  Les Muricidae de Polynesie Francaise

Vokes, E., 1971.  Catalog of the Murex (Muricinae and Ocinebrinae)

Vokes, E.H., 1964.  Supraspecific groups in the sub-families Muricinae and Tritonalinae, Malacologia 2, 1-41

Houart, R., 1992.  Genus Chicoreus and related genera in the Indo-West Pacific

 

Subfamily Coralliophilinae

Kosuge, S. and Suzuki, M., 1985.  Illustrated catalogue of Latiaxis and its related groups – family Coralliophilidae, Institute of Malacoloty of Tokyo, Special Publication No. 1, 83pp, 52 plates

Ponder and Vokes, 1988.  A revision of the Indo-West Pacific fossil and recent species of Murex s.s. and Haustellum (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae), Records of the Australian Museum

 

Nassariidae

Cernohorsky, W.O., 1972.  Indo-Pacific Nassariidae, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 9, 125-194

Cernohorsky, W.O., 1981.  Revisionof the Australian and New Zealand tertiary and recent species of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 18, 137-192

 

Naticidae

Ansell, A.D. and Morton, B., 1987.  Alternative predation tactics of a tropical naticid gastropod, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 111, 109-119

Caillez, J.C., 1992.  An index for Naticidae studies

Cernohorsky, W.O., 1971.  The family Naticidae in the Fiji Is., Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 8, 169-208

Hedley, C., 1924.  Some naticoids from Queensland, Records of the Australian Museum 14 (3), 154-162, pl. 22

Kabat, 1990.  Predatory ecology of naticid gastropods with a review of shell boring predation, Malacologia 32 (1), 155-193

Kabat, A.R., 1991.  The classification of the Naticidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda): review and analysis of the supraspecific taxa, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152 (7), 417-449

Murray, F.V., 1962.  Gelatinous masses spawned by some Naticids (sand-snails), Australian Journal of Science 25,62

 

Neritidae

Baker, H.B., 1923.  Notes on the radula of the Neritidae, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 75, 117-178

Komatsu, S., 1986.  Taxonomic revision of the Neritid gastropods, Special Publication of the Mukaishima Marine Biological Station 1986, 1-69

Loch, I., 1994.  Smaragdia, Australian Shell News 85/86, 1-2

 

Obtortionidae

1914.  Proceedings of the Linnean Society of NSW, 39 pl. 81 fig 53

 

Olividae

Chavan, A., 1965.  Essai de reclassification des Olividae Ancillinae, Bulletin Society Geology de France 7, 102-109

Greifene, 1982.  Acta conchyliorum – Olividae

Kilburn, R., 1981.  Revision of the genus Ancilla

Kilburn, R.N. and Bouchet, P., 1988.  The genus Amalda in New Caledonia, Bulletin Museum Natn. Histoire Naturelle Paris 4 (10) sect. A (2), 277-300

Kilburn, R.N., 1977.  Descriptions of new species of Amalda and Chilotygma with a note on the systematics of Amalda, Ancillus and Ancillista, Annals Natal Museum 23 (1), 13-21

Kilburn, R.N., 1981.  Revision of the genus Ancilla Lamarck, 1799, Annals Natal Museum 24 (2), 349-463

Michaux, B., 1989.  Cladograms and reconstruction of phylogenies: an example from the fossil record, Alcheringa 13, 21-36

Michaux, B., 1991.  The evolution of the Ancillinae with special reference to New Zealand tertiary and reent species of Amalda H. and A. Adams, 1853, Venus 50, (2), 130-149

Ninomiya, T., 1987.  Three new species of the genus Amalda from Japan, Caribbean Sea and south-western Australia, Venus 46 (3), 137-146

Ninomiya, T., 1988.  A new subgenus of five new species of the Ancillinae (Gastropoda: Olividae) from south-western Australia, Japan and Taiwan, Venus 47 (3), 141-153

Ninomiya, T., 1990.  A new subgenus and five new species of the Ancillinae (Gastropoda: Olividae) from Australia, Venus 49 (2), 69-82

Ninomiya, T., 1991.  Sixteen new species of the Ancillinae (Gastropoda: Olividae) from Australia, Venus 50 (1), 1-18

Olsson, O.P., 1956.  The genus Baryspira (Mollusca) in New Zealand, N.Z. Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 24, 3-32, pls 1-7

Petuch and Sargent, 1986.  Atlas of the living olives

Taylor, J.D., and Glover, E.A., 2000.  Diet of olives: Oliva trigridella Duclos, 1835 in Queensland, Molluscan Research Vol. 20 No. 2

Ziegler, R.F. and Porreca, H.C., 1969.  Olive shells of the world, Richard Petit, North Myrtle Beach, S.C.

 

Ovulidae

Cate, C.N., 1973.  Systematic revision of the recent Cypraeid family Ovulidae, Veliger 15 (Supp. 1-116

Cate, C.N., 1973.  The Ovulidae: replacement names for four ovulid hononyms, Veliger 16 (2), 238-239

Cate, C.N., 1974.  The Ovulidae: a key to the genera, and other pertinent notes (Mollusca: Gastropoda), Veliger 16 (3), 307-313

Iredale, T., 1935.  Australian cowries, Australian Zoologist 8, 96-135, pls 8-9

Schilder, F.A. and Schilder, M., 1971.  A catalogue ofliving and fossil cowries, Memoirs Institut Royal Sciences Naturelle de Belgique, 2nd Series 85, 1-246

Tursch, B. and Greifeneder, D.  Oliva shells – the genus Oliva and the species problem subspecies treated

 

Patellidae

Macpherson, J.H., 1955.  Preliminary revision of the families Patellidae and Acmaeidae in Australia, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 67, 229-259

Powell, A.W.B., 1973.  The Patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae), Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3 (15), 75-205

 

Personidae

Beu, A.G., 1988.  Taxonomy of the gastropod families Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae, Part 5 … and recognition of the family Personidae, Sato Ho-on Kai Special Publication 2, 69-96

Henning, T. and Hemmen, J., 1993.  Ranellidae and Personidae of the world

Kronenberg, G., 1994.  A review of the Personidae Gray, 1854 with the description of Distorsio ventricosa spec. nov., Vita Marina 42 No. 3

Laursen, D., 1981.  Taxonomy and distribution of teleplanic prosobranch larvae in the North Atlantic, Dana Report 89, 1-43

Lewis, H., 1972.  Notes on the genus Distorsio with descriptions of new species, Nautilus 86, 27-50, 48 figs.

Parth, M., 1989.  Brief notes on the genus Distorsio Roeding, 1798 and descriptions of a new species, La Conchiglia 21, 233-236, 52

 

Philinidae

Rudman, W.B., 1972.  The genus Philine (Opisthobranchia: Gastropoda), Journal of the Malacological Society of London 4, 171-187

 

Pisanianuridae

Bouchet, 1990.  Veliger 33 (1), 56-102

 

Planaxidae

Cernohorsky, 1972.  Marine shells of the Pacific, 2 pl. 12, figs 18, 18a

Houbrick, R.S., 1987.  Anatomy, reproductive biology and phylogeny of the Planaxidae (Cerithiacea: Prosobranchia), Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 445, 1-57

Houbrick, R.S., 1990.  Anatomy, reproductive biology and systematic position of Fossarus ambiguus (Linne) (Fossarinae Planaxidae: Prosobranchia), Acoreana Supplement 59-73

Loch, 1990.  Australian Shell News 69, 8

Ponder, 1988.  Journal Molluscan Studies 54 (3), 361

Ponder, W.F., 1980.  Cephalic brood pouches in Planaxis and Fossarus (Fossaridae and Planaxidae, Cerithiacea, Gastropoda), Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 4, 257-258

 

Plesiotrochidae

Houbrick, R.S., 1990.  Aspects of the anatomy of Plesiotrochus (Plesiotrochidae fam. n.) and its systematic position in Cerithioidea (Prosobranchia, Caenogastropoda), Proceedings of the Third International Marine Biology Workshop:  The marine flora and fauna of Albany, Western Australia, WA Museum, Perth Vol. 1, 237-249

 

Potamididae

Ewers, W.H. and Rose, C.R., 1966.  Polymorphisms in Velacumantus australis (Gastropoda: Potamididae) and its relationship to parasitism, Australian Journal of Zoology 14, 49-64

Houbrick, R.S., 1984.  American Malacological Bulletin 2, 1-20

Houbrick, R.S., 1988.  Malacological Review Supp. 4, 88-128

Houbrick, R.S., 1991.  Systematic review and functional morphology of the mangrove snails Terebralia and Telescopium (Potamididae: Prosobranchia), Malacologia 31 (1-2), 289-338

 

Ranellidae

Beu, A.G., 1970.  The mollusca of the genus Monoplex (family Cymatiidae), Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 11, 225-237

Houbrick, J.R. and Fretter, V., 1969.  Some aspects of the functional anatomy and biology of Cymatium and Bursa, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 38, 415-429

Laxton, J.H., 1971.  Feeding in some Australasian Cymatiidae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 50, 1-9

Beu, A.G., 1981.  Australian gastropods of the family Bursidae, Records of the Australian Museum 33 (5), 248-324

Beu, A.G., 1985.  A classification and catalogue of living world Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae, Conchologists of America Bulletin 13 (4), 55-66

Beu, A.G. and Cernohorsky, W.O., 1986.  Taxonomy of gastropods of the families Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae.  Part I, N.Z. Journal of Zoology 13, 241-266 see 13, 273-355

Beu, A.G. and Knudsen, J., 1987.  Taxonomy of the gastropods of the family Ranellidae (=Cymatiidae) and Bursidae part 3.  A review of the trifid-ribbed species of Cymatium (Turritriton), Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 17, 73-91

Beu, A.G. and Kay, E.A., 1988.  Taxonomy of gastropods of the families Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae, Part 4, Journal of the Royal Society N.Z. 18, (2), 185-223

Beu, A.G., 1988.  Taxonomy of gastropods of the families Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae, Part 5, Saito Ho-on kai Special Publication 69-96

Warén, A. and Bouchet, P., 1990.  Laubierinidae and Pisanianurinae (Ranellidae), two new deep-sea taxa of the Tonnoidea (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia), Veliger 33, 56-102

Henning, T. and Hemmen, J., 1993.  Ranellidae and Personidae of the world

Piech, B.J., 1995.  Ranellidae and Personidae: a classification of recent species, Indo-West Pacific

Beu, A.G., 1998.  Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda)

Beu, A.G., Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), a monograph of the New Caledonian fauna and revisions of related taxa  

Beu, A.G. and Cernohorsky, W.O., 1986.  Taxonomy of gastropods of the families Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae.  Part 1.  Adoption of Ranellidae and review of Linatella Gray, 1857, New Zealand Journal of Zoology 13, 241-266

Beu, A.G., 1970.  The mollusca of the genus Charonia, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 11, 206-223

Beu, A.G., 1970.  The mollusca of the genus Monoplex (family Cymatiidae), Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 11, 225-237

Beu, A.G., 1971.  Synonymies in the molluscan family Cymatiidae, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2, 101-111

Laxton, J.H., 1971.  Feeding in some Australasian Cymatiidae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia), Journal of the Linnean Society London (Zoology) 50, 1-9

Beu, A.G., 1980.  Australian gastropods of the family Bursidae, Part 1, Records Australian Museum 33 (5), 248-324

Beu, A.G., 1985.  A classification and catalogue of living world Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae, Conchologists of America Bulletin 13 (4), 55-66

Beu, A.G., 1987.  Taxonomy of gastropods of the families Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae, Part 2 Descriptions of 14 new modern Indo-West Pacific species and subspecies with revisions of related taxa, N.Z. Journal Zoology 13, 273-355

Beu, A.G., 1988.  Taxonomy of the gastropod families Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae, Part 5 … and recognition of the family Personidae, Sato Ho-on Kai Special Publication 2, 69-96

Beu, A.G., 1970.  The mollusca of the genus Charonia, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 11, 206-223

 

Rastodentidae

Ponder, W.F., 1966.  A new family of the Rissoacea from New Zealand, Records Dominion Museum 5, 177-184

 

Siliquariidae

Bieler, R., 1992.  Tenagodus or Siliquaria?  Unravelling taxonomic confusion in marine ‘worm-snails’(Cerithioidea: Siliquariidae), Nautilus 106, 15-20

 

Siphonariidae

Jenkins, B.W., 1981.  Siphonaria funiculata Reeve (Siphonariidae, Pulmonata) a redescription making S. virgulata Hedley and geographical variant of S. funiculata, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5, 1-15

Jenkins, B.W., 1983.  Redescriptions and relationships of Siphonaria zelandica Quoy & Gaimard to S. australia Quoy and Gaimard with a description of S. propria sp. nov. (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Siphonariidae), Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 6, 1-35

Jenkins, B.W., 1983.  A new Siphonariidae (Mollusca: Pulmonata) from southwestern Australia, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 6, 113-123

 

Skeneidae

Marshall, B.A., 1988.  Skeneidae, Vitrinellidae and Orbitestellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) associated with biogenic substrata from bathyal depths off New Zealand and New South Wales, Journal of Natural History 22, 949-1004

Laseron, C.F., 1954.  Revision of the Liotiidae of New South Wales, Australian Zoologist 12, 1-25

 

Strombidae

Abbot, R. Tucker, 1961.  The genus Lambis in the Indo-Pacific, Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1 (3), 147-174, pls 118-134

Abbott, R. Tucker, 1960.  The genus Strombus in the Indo-Pacific, Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1 (2), 33-144, pls 11-117

Jung, P. and Abbott, R. Tucker, 1967.  The genus Terebellus (Gastropoda: Strombidae), Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1 (7), 445-454, pls 318-327

Kreipl, K. and Poppe, G., 1999.  Conchological iconography Vol. 2, Strombidae

Kronenberg, G.C. and Berkhout, J., 1984.  Strombidae, Vita Marina 1984, 263-362

Moscatelli, R., 1987.  Superfamily Strombacea

 

Struthiolariidae

Darragh, T.A., 1991.  A revision of the Australian genus Tylospira Harris, 1897 (Gastropoda: Struthiolariidae), Alcheringa 15, 151-175

 

Terebridae

Aubry, U., 1984.  Terebridae

Bratcher, T. and Cernohorsky, W.O., 1987.  Living Terebridae of the world, American Malacologists Inc., Melbourne, Florida 240 pp., 68  pls

Cernohorsky, W.O. and Jennings, A., 1966.  The Terebridae of Fiji, Veliger 9 (1), 37-67 pls 4-7

Miller, B.A., 1971.  Feeding mechanisms in the family Terebridae, Annual Report American Malacological Union for 1970, 72-74

Miller, B.A., 1975.  The biology of Terebra gouldi Deshays, 1859, and a discussion of the life history similarities among other terebrids of similar proboscis type, Pacific Science 29, 227-241

Miller, B.A., 1979.  The biology of Hastula inconstans (Hinds, 1844) and a discussion of life history similarities among other Hastula of similar proboscis type, Pacific Science 33 (3), 289-306

Rudman, W.B., 1969.  Observations on Pervicacia tristis (Deshays, 1859) and a comparison with other toxoglossan gastropods, Veliger 12, 53-63

 

Tonnidae

Beu, A.G., 1980.  Records of the Australian Museum 33 (5), 248-324

Hedley, C., 1919.  A review of the Australian Tun shells, Records of the Australian Museum 12, 329-336

Marshall, 1992.  Eudolium, Nautilus 106 (1), 24-38

Morton, 1991.  J. Molluscan Studies 57, 11-19

 

Trochidae

Adams, 1853

Cotton, B.C. and Godfrey, F.K., 1934.  South Australian shells (including descriptions of new genera and species) part XI Trochidae, South Australian Naturalist 15, 77-92

Galkin, 1955.  Gastropod molluscs Trochidae of the far eastern and northern seas of the U.S.S.R.

Hickman and McLean, 1990.  Systematic revision and suprageneric classification of trochacean gastropods, Los Angeles County Museum, Science Series 35, 1-169

Iredale, 1924

Jansen, P.I., 1993.  The family Trochidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Sydney metropolitan area and adjacent coast, Australian Zoologist 29, 49-61

Jansen, P.I., 1994.  Some observations on the Australian species of Gena (Trochidae), Australian Shell News 85/6, 4-5

Ponder, W.F., 1975.  The reinstatement of the name Astralium tentoriformis Jonas for Bellastraea sirius of authors, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3, 121-126

Robertson, R., 1973.  The genus Gabrielona (Phasianellidae) in the Indo-Pacific and West-Indies, Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3 (14), 41-61

Robertson, R., 1985.  Archaeogastropod biology and the systematics of the genus Tricolia (Trochacea: Tricoliidae) in the Indo-West-Pacific, Monographs of Marine Mollusca 3, 1-103

Rubio, F. and Rolan, E.  Revision of the genus Clanculus (Gastropoda: Trochidae) in the eastern Atlantic

Tate, 1893

 

Turbinellidae

Harasewych, M.G., 1987.  Nautilus 101 (4), 166-181

Harasewych, M.G. and Petit, 1989.  Nautilus 103 (2), 83-84

Subfamily Columbariinae

Darragh, T.A., 1969.  A revision of the Columbariidae, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 83 (1), 63-119

Darragh, T.A., 1987.  Columbariinae (Gastropoda: Turbinellidae) from Queensland, Australia, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 9 (4), 127-134

Habe, T., 1979.  The western Pacific Columbariid species, Venus 38 (1), 1-4

Harasewych, M.G., 1986.  The Columbariinae (Gastropoda: Turbinellidae) of the eastern Indian Ocean, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 7 (3-4), 155-170

 

Turbinidae

Hickman and McLean, 1990.  Systematic revision and suprageneric classification of trochacean gastropods, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series, 35, 169 pp

Ponder, W.F., 1975.  The reinstatement of the name Astralium tentoriformis Jonas for Bellastraea sirius of authors, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3, 121-126

Subfamily Angariidae

Poppe and Grotto, 1993.  Recent Angariidae  

Subfamily Liotiidae

Laseron, C.F., 1954.  Revision of the Liotiidae of New South Wales, Australian Zoologist 12, 1-25

Subfamily Tricoliidae

Robertson, R., 1985.  Archaeogastropod biology and the systematics of the genus Tricolia (Trochacea: Tricoliidae) in the Indo-West Pacific, Monographs of Marine Mollusca 3, 1-103

Robertson, R., 1985.  Archaeogastropod biology and the systematics of the genus Tricolia (Trochacea: Tricoliidae) in the Indo-West Pacific, loose-leaf

 

Turridae

Hedley, C., 1922.  A revision of the Australian Turridae, Records of the Australian Museum 13 (6), 213-259

Laseron, C.F., 1954.  The New South Wales Turridae, Royal Zoological Society NSW Zoological Handbook, 56 pp

McLean, J.H., 1971.  A revised classification of the family Turridae, with the proposal of new subfamilies, genera and subgenera from the eastern Pacific, Veliger 14, 114-130

Powell, A.W.B., 1964.  The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific Part 1 the subfamily Turrinae, Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1 (5), 227-345

Powell, A.W.B., 1967.  The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific Part 1a the subfamily Turrinae concluded, Ibid 1 (7), 409-431

Powell, A.W.B., 1969.  The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific Part 2 the subfamily Turriculinae, Ibid 2 (10), 207-415

Wells, F.E., 1990.  Revision of the recent Australian Turridae referred to the genera Splendrillia and Austrodrillia, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 11, 73-117

Wells, F.E., 1991.  A revision of the recent Australian species of the turrid genera Clavus, Plagiostropha and Tylotiella (Mollusca: Gastropoda), Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 12, 1-33

 

Turritellidae

Garrard, T.A., 1972.  Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2 (3), 267-338 1974, 3 (1), 15-17 1982, 5 (3-4), 195-200

Marwick, 1957.  Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 32, 144-166

 

Vitrinellidae

Laseron, C.F., 1954.  Revision of the Liotiidae of New South Wales, Australian Zoologist 12, 1-25

 

Vermetidae

Hadfield, M.G., Kay, E.A., Gillette, M.U. and Lloyd, M.C., 1971.  The Vermetidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Hawaiian Is., Marine Biology 12 (1), 81-98

Keen, A.M., 1960.  A proposed reclassification of the family Vermetidae, Bulletin British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 7 (3), 183-213, pls 54-55

Morton, J.E., 1965.  Form and function in the Vermetidae, British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 11 (9), 585-630

Yonge, C.M. and Iles, E.L., 1939.  On the mantle cavity, pedal gland and evolution of mucous feeding in the Vermetidae, Annals and Magazine Natural History (Ser 11) 3, 536-556

Yonge, C.M., 1932.  Notes on the feeding and digestion in Pterocera and Vermetus with a discussion on the occurrence of the crystalline style in the Gastropoda, Scientific Reports Great Barrier Reef Expecition 1, 259-281

 

Volutidae

Abbotsmith, F., 1969.  Multiform Australian Volutes, Privately published, 109 pp

Aiken and Fuller, 1970.  Living Volutes of Africa

Bail, P. and Limpus, A., 2001.  Concholgical Iconography Vol 5. Amoria

Bail, P. and Pimpus, A., 1999.   Revision of Cymbiola (Cymbiolacca) from east Australian coast: the “Pulchra complex”

Bail, P. and Poppe, G., 2001.   Conchological Iconography Vol 6.  A taxonomic introduction to the recent Volutidae

Darragh, T.A., 1989.  A revision of the tertiary Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of south-eastern Australia, Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 49 (2), 195-307

Poppe, G. and Gotto, Y., 1992.  Volutes

Poppe, G.T. and Goto, Y., 1992.  Volutes, Mostra Mondiale Malacologia Cupra Maritima, 348 pp, 107 col. pls

Smith, M., 1942.  Review of the Volutidae

Weaver, C.S. and Du Pont, J.E., 1970.  Living Volutes, Delaware Museum of Natural History, 375 pp, 79 col. pls

Wilson, B.R., 1972.  New species and records of Volutidae from Western Australia, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2 (3), 339-360

 

Volutomitridae

Cernohorsky, 1970.  Bulletin Auckland Institute and Museum No. 8, 90-190

Iredale and McMichael, 1962.  Australian Museum Memoirs 11

 

Xenophoridae

Kreipl, K. and Alf, A., 1999.  Recent Xenophoridae

Ponder, Dr. W., 1983.  Australian Museum Memoir 17, 126 pp