Bruce Neville

Shelling Resources

Not too many mollusks to hunt for here in the Desert Southwest. I picked up the hobby visiting my grandparents and later living in Florida. Although I have a general collection, I now specialize in cones, wentletraps, and Linnaean species, with minor concentrations in the neritids, melampids (=ellobiids), and strombids. I am trying to avoid getting hooked on volutes and murexes (literally!).

I haven't found any Web sites devoted exclusively to wentletraps yet. I am currently working on The Book on wentletraps with Art Weil and Leonard Brown. In the interim, I have published a "Master Index to Species Names in the Family Epitoniidae" [Caution: pdf file is 352KB] and a "Bibliography of the Family Epitoniidae" [pdf file is 115KB]. Both publications are also available in hard copy. E-mail me if you'd like information on obtaining copies.

Among my favorite shell links are:

• Charmaine's Killer Snail Homepage devoted to the cones.
• Catalog of recent names in the Conidae by (who else) Kohn.
• Conchologists of America (COA) homepage.
• Hawaiian Shell News, an excellent publication now available only electronically that I desperately miss in my mailbox. (Okay, so I'm a Luddite.)
• Vita Marina, another electronic shelling magazine. Their site also has many useful links to other resources.
• Internet Resources for Conchologists, a well-organized and comprehensive source of links to shelling information on the Web.
• Molluscs Net, another site with many shell links and a trading forum.
• Guido Poppe's site, which includes an excellent photo gallery.
• Malacolog2.0, a searchable database of molluscs of the Western Atlantic.