Worldwide Shell Reference Books & Articles


Microscopic shell families. (10mm or less):

 

Aclididae

Ponder, W.F., 1985.  A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea), Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 4, 1-221

 

Anabathridae

Laseron, C.F., 1950.  Review of the Rissoidae of New South Wales, Records of the Australian Museum 22, 257-287

Ponder, W.F. and Yoo, E.K., 1976.  A revision of the Australian and Tropical Indo-Pacific tertiary and recent species of Pisinna (= Estea) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rissoidae), Records of the Australian Museum 30, 150-247

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

Ponder, W.F., 1988.  The truncatelloidean (= rissoacean) radiation – a prelimary phylogeny, Malacological Review Supplement 4, 129-166

 

Assimineidae

Abbott, R.T., 1958.  Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 110

 

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, Americal Malacological Union, Annual Report 1968, 39

 

Campaniloidea

Healy, J.M., 1993.  Transfer of the gastropod family Plesiotrochidae to the Campaniloidea based on sperm ultrastructural evidence, Journal of Molluscan Studies 59, 135-146

Houbrick, R.S., 1990.  Aspects of the anatomy of Plesiotrochus (Plesiotrochidae fam. n.) and its systematic position in Cerithoidea (Prosobranchia, Caenogastropoda), Proceedings of the third International Marine Biology Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Albany, Western Australia, W.A. Museum, Perth Vol. 1, 237-249

 

Columbellidae

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

Radwin, G.E., 1978.  The family Columbellidae in the western Atlantic, pt 11b the Pyreninae (continued), Veliger 20, 328 – 3 ??

 

Condylocardiidae

Laseron, C.F., 1953.  Minute bivalves from New South Wales, Records of the Australian Museum 23, 33-53

 

Conidae

 

Subfamily Clathurellinae

 

Subfamily Coninae

Refer to index Larger Shells

 

Hedley, C., 1922.  A revision of the Australian Turridae, Records of the Australian Museum 13, 213-359

Laseron, C.F., 1954.  Revision of the New South Wales Turidae (Mollusca), Australian Zoology Handbook, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 50 pp

Walls, J.G., 1978.  Cone shells: a synopsis of the living Conidae, T.F.H. Publications, New Jersey, 1011pp

 

Subfamily Daphnellinae

 

Subfamily Mangeliinae

 

Cylindrobullidae

No current research

 

Ellobioidea

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

 

Emblandidae

Laseron, C.F., 1950.  Review of the Rissoidae of New South Wales, Records of the Australian Museum 22, 257-287

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

 

Epigridae

Laseron, C.F., 1950.  Review of the Rissoidae of New South Wales, Records of the Australian Museum 22, 257-287

Ponder, W.F., 1985.  A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea), Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 4, 1-221

 

Eatoniellidae

Laseron, C.F., 1950.  Review of the Rissoidae of New South Wales, Records of the Australian Museum 22, 257-287

Ponder, W.F., 1965.  The family Eatoniellidae in New Zealand, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 6, 47-99

Ponder, W.F. and Yoo, E.K., 1977.  A revision of the Eatoniellidae of Australia, Records of the Australian Museum 31 (15), 606-658

 

Eulimidae

Laseron, C., 1955.  Revision of the NSW Eulimoid shells, Australian Zoologist 12, 83-107

Warén, A., 1984.  A generic revision of the family Eulimidae, Journal Molluscan Studies Supp. 13, 1-96

Warén, A. and Crossland, M.R., 1991.  Revision of Hypermastus Pilsbry 1889 and Turveria Berry, 1956 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Eulimidae), two genera parasitic on sand dollars, Records of the Australian Museum 43, 85-112

 

Iravadiidae

Laseron, C.F., 1950.  Review of the Rissoidae of New South Wales, Records of the Australian Museum 22, 257-287

Ponder, W.F., 1984.  A review of the genera of the Iravadiidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rissoacea) with an assessment of the relationships of the family, Malacologia 25, 21-71

 

Lamellariidae

Allan, J., 1956.  Cowry shells of world seas, Georgian House, Melbourne 170pp

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

Caledoniella souverbie, 1869 (type species montrouzieri Souverbie): labyrinthina, pulchra and testudinis, all described from SA by Basedow, 1905, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 29, 183-185, pl 28, figs 1-4

Cate, C., 1979.  A review of the Triviidae, San Diego Society of Natural History Society, Memoir 10, 1-126

Chelynotus Bergh, 1853 (type species nigra Blainville): tonganus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832, an Indo-West Pacific species recorded from northern Australia

Imarseniopsis Bergh, 1886 (type species pacificus Bergh): innominatus Iredale, 1936 from NSW

Iredale, T., 1935.  Australian cowries, Australian Zoologist 8 (2), 96-135, pls 8-9

Iredale, T., 1936.  Australian molluscan notes No. 2, Records of the Australian Museum 19, 267-340

Lamellaria Montagu, 1815 (type species perspicua Linnaeus): australis Basedow, 1905, from SA and southern WA: ophione Gray, 1849, from Bass St. to Cape Naturaliste, WA

Mysticoncha Allan, 1936 (type species contusiformis Baselow = wilsoni Smith): wilsoni Smith, 1886, from Bass St.

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

Schilder, M. and Schilder, F.A., 1971.  A catalogue of the living cowries, Memoires Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 2nd series 85, 246 pp

Shilder, F.A., 1933.  Monograph of the subfamily Eratoinae, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 20, 244-284

 

 

Lasaeidae

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

O’Foighil, D., 1989.  Planktonic larval development is associated with a restricted geographic range in Lasaea, a genus of brooding hermaphroditic bivalves, Marine Biology 103, 349-358

 

Leptonidae

No current reference

 

Liptiopidae

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

Luque, A.A., Templado, J. and Burnay,L.P., 1988.  On the systematic position of the genera Litiopa Rang, 1829 and Alaba H. & A. Adams, 1853, Malacological Review Supplement 4, 180-193

 

Marginellidae

Bouchet, P., 1989.  A marginellid gastropod parasitizes on sleeping fishes, Bulletin of Marine Science 45, 76-84

Coan, E., 1965.  A proposed reclassification of the family Marginellidae, Veliger 7, 184-193

Coovert, G. and H., 1995.  Revision of the supraspecific classification of the Marginelliform gastropods, The Nautilus 109 (2-3), 43-110

Coovert, G.A., 1987.  Marginella Marginalia 3, 35-37

Cossignani and Altri, 2000.  Marginellidae of the world

Cotton, B.C., 1944.  Australian margin shells, S.A. Naturalist 22 (4), 9-16

Cotton, B.C., 1949.  Australian recent and tertiary Mollusca, family Marginellidae, Records of the South Australian Museum 9 (4), 197-224

Laseron, C.F., 1948.  New South Wales Marginellidae, Records of the Australian Museum 22, 34-48

Laseron, C.F., 1957.  A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca) with a review of species from the Solanderian and Damperian Provinces, Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8 (3) 274-311

Lippe, R., 1991.  Marginellas, The Shell Stepe, Florida, USA

Lussi and Smith, 2000.  Marginellidae of South Africa (2 parts)

Ponder, W.F. and Taylor, J.D., 1992.  Predatory shell drilling by two species of Austroginella (Gastropoda: Marginellidae), Journal of Zoology (London) 228, 317-328

Ponder, W.F., 1970.  Some aspects of the morphology of four species of the neogastropod family Marginellidae with a discussion on the evolution of the toxoglossan poison gland, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2 (1), 55-81

Tomlin, J.R. Le B., 1917.  A systematic list of the Marginellidae, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 21, 242-306

 

Montacutidae

No current reference

 

Ovivellidae

No current review

 

Pyramidellidae

Laseron, C.F., 1951.  The New South Wales Pyramidellidae and the genus Mathilda, Records of the Australian Museum 22, 298-334

Laseron, C.F., 1959.  The family Pyramidellidae from north Australia, Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 10, 177-267

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

Iredale, T. and McMichael, D.F., 1962.  A reference list of the marine mollusca of New South Wales, Australian Museum Memoir No. 11, 109 pp

Høisæter, T., 1989.  Biological notes on some Pyramidellidae (Gastropoda: Ophistobranchia) from Norway, Sarsia 74, 283-297

Höisæter, T., 1989.  Biological notes on some Pyramidellidae (Gastropoda: Ophistobranchia) from Norway, Sarsia 74, 283-297

 

Retusidae

Burn, R. and Bell, K.N., 1974.  De4scription of Retusa chrysoma Burn sp. nov. (Opistobhranchia) and its food resources from Corner Inlet, Victoria, Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 35, 115-119

 

Ringiculidae

Pelseneer, P., 1924.  Organisation et position systématique du genre Ringicula, Annales de la Société Zoologique de Belgique 55, 53-58

 

Rissoidae

Laseron, C.F., 1950.  Review of the Rissoidae of New South Wales, Records of the Australian Museum 22, 257-287

Laseron, C.F., 1956.  The families Rissoinae and Rissoidae from the Solanderian Zoogeographical provinces, Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7, 384-484

Ponder, W.F. and Yoo, E.K., 1976.  A revision of the Australian and tropical Indo-Pacific tertiary and recent species of Pisinna (=Estea) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rissoidae), Records of the Australian Museum 30, 150-247

Ponder, W.F., 1985.  A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissocacea), Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 4, 1-221

Ponder, W.F., 1988.  The truncatelloidean (= Rissoacean) radiation – a preliminary phylogeny, Malacological Review Supplement 4, 129-166

Ponder, W.F., 1999.  Calopia (Calopiidae), a new genus and family of estuarine gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea) from Australia, Molluscan Research Vol. 20 No. 1

 

Scissurellidae

Adams, A., 1862.  On some new species of Scissurellidae from the seas of China and Japan, Ann. Mag. Natural History (3) 10, 346-348

Barrett, L., 1856.  Memorandum on the animal of Scissurella crispata, Ann. Mag. Natural History 17, 206

Batten, R.L., 1975.  The Scissurellidae – are they neotenously derived Fissurellids? (Archaeogastropoda), American Museum Novitates 2567, 1-29

Cernohorsky, W.O., 1977.  Type specimens of recent and fossil mollusca described by H.J. Finlay Part 1, 247 (Scissurellidae – Turbinidae), Records of the Auckland Institute Museum 9, 231- ???

Habe, T., 1951.  Scissurellidae.  Illustrated catalogue of Japanese shells, T. Kuroda (ed.) No. 11, 65-70

Herbert, D.G., 1986.  A revision of the South African Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia), Annals of the Natal Museum 27, 601-632

Jeffreys, J.G., 1856.  Note on the genus Scissurella, Ann. Mag. Natural History (2) 17, 319-321

Marshall, B., 1993.  The systematic position of Larochea Finlay, 1927 and introduction of a new genus and two new species (Gastropoda: Scissurellidae), J. Moll Stud. 59, 285-294

Marshall, B.A., 2002.  Some recent scissurellids from the New Zealand region and remarks on some scissurellid genus group names (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda), Molluscan Research Vol. 22 No. 2 pp 165-182

McLean, J.H., 1989.  New slit-limpets (Scissurellacea and Fissurellacea) from hydrothermal vents Part 1.   Systematic descriptions and comparisons based on shell and radular characters, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles 407, 1-29

Yaron, I., 1983.  A review of the Scisurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Red Sea, Ann. Naturhist Museum Wien 84B 263-267, pls 1-8

 

Triphoridae

Marshall, B.A., 1983.  A revision of the recent Triphoridae of southern Australia, Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 2, 1-119

 

Triviidae

Cate, C.N., 1979.  A review of the Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), San Diego Society of Natural History Memoirs 10, 1-126

 

Subfamily Eratoinae

Cate, C.N., 1977.  A review of the Eratoidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), The Veliger 19 (3), 341-366

Schilder, F.A., 1933.  Monograph of the subfamily Eratoinae, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 20, 244-285

 

Vanikoridae

No current review

 

Vitrinellidae

Cunningham-Vaught, K., 1989.  A classification of the living mollusca, Americal Malacologists Inc., Melbourne, Florida 189 pp

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

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