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A AL AR AU B BL C CE CO CR D DI E EP F FO G GR H I J K L LI M MC MO N O P PE PL PU Q R RO S SE SP T TH TR U V VI W X Y Z |
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Taxonomic Information |
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| Class | GASTROPODA |
| Order | OPISTHOBRANCHIATA |
| SuperFamily | ACTEONACEA |
| Family | ACTEONIDAE |
takes you one level back up in the heirarchy, from Family to Superfamily to Order Release history
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| 33.11 | 12nd May, 2013 | 52,129 taxa including 14,219 synonyms, 17,114 illustrated with 49,853 images including 3,300 images of types |
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| 33.10 | 12th May, 2013 | 51,991 taxa including 14,168 synonyms, 17,022 illustrated with 49,615 images including 3,074 images of types |
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| 33.09 | 30th April, 2013 | 51,907 taxa including 14,137 synonyms, 16,861 illustrated with 49,325 images including 3,022 images of types |
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| 33.08 | 22nd April, 2013 | 51,884 taxa including 14,136 synonyms, 16,705 illustrated with 48,904 images including 2,917 images of types |
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| 33.07 | 1St April, 2013 | 51,809 taxa including 14,090 synonyms, 16,732 illustrated with 48,873 images including 2,883 images of types |
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| 33.06 | 27th February, 2013 | 51,692 taxa including 14,038 synonyms, 16,684 illustrated with 48,789 images including 2,818 images of types |
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| 33.05 | 17th February, 2013 | Significant updates of taxa described in 2002-2006. 51,693 taxa including 14,041 synonyms, 16,664 illustrated with 48,542 images including 2,814 images of types |
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| 33.03 | 4th February, 2013 | 51,488 taxa including 14,036 synonyms, 16,593 illustrated with 48,398 images including 2,701 images of types |
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| 33.02 | 17th January, 2013 | 51,452 taxa including 14,032 synonyms, 16,587 illustrated with 48,380 images including 2,684 images of types |
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| 33.01 | 6th January, 2013 | Discovered (and fixed) a bug causing nomina dubia and nomina nuda not to appear in the alphabetic index pages. 50,946 taxa including 13,854 synonyms, 16,546 illustrated with 48,212 images including 2,683 images of types |
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| 32.07 | 29th December, 2012 | Started photographing NHMUK types. First 53 now online. 50,897 taxa including 13,841 synonyms, 16,531 illustrated with 48,011 images including 2,645 images of types |
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| 32.05 | 13th October, 2012 | 50,775 taxa including 13,801 synonyms, 16,406 illustrated with 47,436 images including 2,537 images of types |
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| 32.03 | 28th August, 2012 | Modest change - navigation pages now show the number of images per shell rather than just an * 50,570 taxa including 13,744 synonyms, 16,176 illustrated with 46,783 images including 2,446 images of types |
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| 32.02 | 16th August, 2012 | Started sorting out Epitoniids 50,444 taxa including 13,748 synonyms, 16,090 illustrated with 46,468 images including 2,444 images of types |
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| 32.01 | 28th July, 2012 | Started sorting out Epitoniids 50,286 taxa including 13,646 synonyms, 16,063 illustrated with 46,362 images including 2,444 images of types |
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| 32.00 | 3rd July, 2012 | Over 6 months since last release! 5 months travelling around the Pacific, crashed laptop in January approaching Hawaii caused me huge problems with software only resolved in the last few days. A highly enjoyable week at Los Angeles County NHM with Lindsey Groves and Jim McLean and their wonderful collection of type specimens. Lots of updates - including implementing Williams, Donald, Spencer & Nakano's work on Trochidae and nearly 2,000 new images. 50,248 taxa including 13,557 synonyms, 16,050 illustrated with 46,262 images including 2,414 images of types |
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| 31.03 | 18th November, 2011 | Started sorting out Epitoniids 49,623 taxa including 13,496 synonyms, 15,677 illustrated with 44,363 images |
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| 31.02 | 10th November, 2011 | Lots of tidying up getting rid of duplicates, obvious and not so obvious 49,619 taxa including 13,468 synonyms, 15,673 illustrated with 44,340 images |
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| 31.01 | 30th October, 2011 | Sorted out the order in which taxa appear. Most genera are now organized alphabetically 49,369 taxa including 13,459 synonyms, 15,613 illustrated with 44,138 images |
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| 31.00 | 15th October, 2011 | Lots of software work behind the scenes. Separation of the sinistral site is now complete and is no longer included in these stats. 49,217 taxa including 13,425 synonyms, 15,590 illustrated with 44,026 images |
30.01 | 29th September, 2011 | 49,539 taxa including 13,459 synonyms, 15,616 illustrated with 43,957 images |
| 30.00 | 15th September, 2011 | Introduced Google Analytics to give me more flexible site statistics 49,283 taxa including 13,400 synonyms, 15,579 illustrated with 43,859 images |
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| 29.05 | 16th August, 2011 | 49,451 taxa including 13,402 synonyms, 15,547 illustrated with 43,645 images |
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| 29.04 | 27th July, 2011 | 49,327 taxa including 13,298 synonyms, 15,546 illustrated with 43,335 images |
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| 29.02 | 27th June, 2011 | 49,273 taxa including 13,242 synonyms, 15,456 illustrated with 43,008 images |
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| 29.00 | 22nd April, 2011 | Finally achieved the upgrade of all my VB6 programs to run with MSAccess 2007 - thank you Suryanto of JustAnswer for getting me through this longstanding problem. Thanks to Gavin Malcolm for comprehensively reviewing the Terebrid taxonomy and images. I will also be including increasing numbers of images from the Natural History Museum, UK - thanks to them and to Gavin for arranging this. 49,161 taxa including 13,241 synonyms, 15,341 illustrated with 42,526 images |
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| 28.03 | 22nd April, 2011 | 49,095 taxa including 13,209 synonyms, 15,280 illustrated with 42,267 images |
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| 28.01 | 14th April, 2011 | 49,038 taxa including 13,152 synonyms, 15,264 illustrated with 42,207 images |
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| 28.00 | 5th April, 2011 | Fixed a bug causing duplicate entries to appear in some of the index pages |
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| 27.07 | 2nd April, 2011 | 48,940 taxa including 13,151 synonyms, 15,211 illustrated with 42,082 images |
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| 27.06 | 19th February, 2011 | 48,917 taxa including 13,148 synonyms, 15,136 illustrated with 41,683 images |
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| 27.04 | 3rd January, 2011 | 48,903 taxa including 13,150 synonyms, 15,505 illustrated with 41,360 images |
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| 27.02 | 26th November, 2010 | Thanks to Felix Lorenz the family Ovulidae has had a major update. Many images have been reidentified and the first pass at improving the status of valid taxa and synonyms has been undertaken. A similar exercise is being undertaken for the family Terebridae with tremendous help from Gavin Malcolm. No big change to the HTML pages but huge change to how the online site is updated. I have written a couple of programs which examine the previous release and the current release and determine which pages need updating. This last update involved moving only 2,100 pages instead of the full 37,000!! 48,553 taxa including 13,122 synonyms, 14,939 illustrated with 40,917 images |
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| 27.01 | 8th November, 2010 | Tidying up and improved backing up (behind the scenes) | |
| 27.00 | 3rd October, 2010 | Added subfamily labels to thumbnail indices 48,545 taxa including 13,023 synonyms, 14,842 illustrated with 40,691 images |
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| 26.01 | 30th September, 2010 | Corrected the mechanisms for counting taxa etc 48,174 taxa including 12,834 synonyms, 14,761 illustrated with 40,201 images |
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| 26.00 | 5th September, 2010 | Major changes to the Taxonomic index pages - all subfamilies are now grouped on the family page. This re-enables easy searching for shells in a family. Major effect on CYPRAEOIDEA and CONOIDEA 47,598 taxa (removed many land snails) including 12,935 synonyms, 14,528 illustrated with 39,817 images |
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| 25.02 | 23rd August, 2010 | Many images from Natural History Museum Rotterdam of which 845 are "firsts". 48,033 taxa including 12,931 synonyms, 14,519 illustrated with 39,231 images |
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| 25.01 | 23rd July, 2010 | Catching up on images and updates received while I was travelling in November - May. 47,586 taxa including 12,830 synonyms, 13,555 illustrated with 38,118 images |
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| 25.00 | 28th June, 2010 | Mainly a small software change - with the introduction of Opisthobranchia I recognised the need to show Body or Shell sizes so I can now show both or either. Also big updates from the Schepman book by Bram van der Bijl et al | |
| 24.00 | 14th June, 2010 | Apart from quite a few normal updates I have finally got serious about Nudibranchs and have more or less completely implemented Gary McDonald' Nudibranch Systematic Index, second edition - a truly astonishing piece of work. If anybody out there will allow me to use their images please let me know. 47,586 taxa including 12,830 synonyms, 13,555 illustrated with 37,579 images |
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| 23.06 | 9th April, 2010 | The excellent Systematic Classification of Recent and Fossil Conoidean Gastropods by Tucker & Tenorio arrived just after I completed Release 23.05. So I implemented it immediately and here are the results. |
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| 23.04/23.05 | 7th April, 2010 | I have been travelling for 4 months but managed to do quite a lot of work while I was away. Unfortunately I had great problems trying to make my Visual Basic work with MSAccess 2007. Finally gave up for now but it took me a long time to back track my database to MSAccess 2000. 45,089 taxa including 11,641 synonyms, 13,547 illustrated with 37,570 images |
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| 23.03 | 21st September 2009 | Still not caught up with the backlog of updates but enough to make it worth uploading 44,491 taxa including 11,262 synonyms, 13,331 illustrated with 36,504 images |
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| 23.02 | 10th June 2009 | After a wonderful 3 months touring China and the Far East came home to a huge backlog of updates 44,179 taxa including 11,075 synonyms, 13,126 illustrated with 35,491 images |
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| 23.01 | 24th February 2009 | A bit of tidying up and catching up with updates not carried out during the traumatic site move process. Off on holiday to China and the Far East so no more updates until early June 43,363 taxa including 10,889 synonyms, 12,749 illustrated (the count is accurate now!) with 34,979 images |
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| 23.00 | 9th February 2009 | Major changes - moved the site to a new host In order to allow messages to be displayed on every page the file extensions have been changed top .shtm or .shtml Many thanks to RIPE for supporting me for the last 6 years 42,981 taxa including 10,734 synonyms, 12,834 illustrated with 34,612 images |
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| 22.02 | 28th January 2009 | Temporary release in middle of moving the site to a new host |
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| 22.01 | 24th December 2008 | Much updating gone on. Many errors identified with especial thanks to Didier Gille! Change of email address as spam volume is now overwhelming. 42,939 taxa including 10,423 synonyms, 12,620 illustrated with 34,134 images |
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| 22.00 | 3rd November 2008 | At long last I have added the unidentified shells section - this is accessible from the home page and from every index page for Families for which I have unidentified shells |
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| 21.03 | 9th October 2008 | 42,561 taxa including 10,463 synonyms, 12,485 illustrated with 33,487 images. |
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| 21.02 | 30th August 2008 | 42,306 taxa including 10,385 synonyms, 12,336 illustrated with 32,866 images. |
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| 21.01 | 2nd August 2008 | Lots of tidying up, especially to sequencing of Genera so that related Genera/subgenera should now all appear together whereas some were separated from each other. 42,203 taxa including 10,332 synonyms, 12,237 illustrated with 32,866 images. |
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| 21.00 | 16th June 2008 | Added images to the taxonomic index pages. Apart from anything else this will help in sorting the genera into a more helpful order and hopefully will help people get to a rough identification of unknown shells more quickly 41,874 taxa including 10,127 synonyms, 12,108 illustrated with 32,126 images. |
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| 20.07 | 11th May 2008 | 41,786 taxa including 10,112 synonyms, 12,061 illustrated with images. | |
| 20.06 | 20th April 2008 | Releasing some of the work done while I was travelling. 41,550 taxa including 10,079 synonyms, 11,844 illustrated with 31,490 images. | |
| 20.05 | 27th December 2007 | Bits of tidying up before I went travelling for 3 1/2 months. | |
| 20.04 | 27th November 2007 | Lots of tidying up. 41,229 taxa including 9,844 synonyms, 11,707 illustrated with 30,397 images. | |
| 20.03 | 18th November 2007 | First pass at Nudibranchs now completed. Moved the publications in which the taxon was first described to the top of the list and made the green colour a little more acceptable. 41,110 taxa including 9,764 synonyms, 11,702 illustrated with 30,169 images. | |
| 20.02 | 13th October 2007 | Corrected an error causing many taxa of the genus Philine to appear under the family Trochidae. Also introduced green backgrounds for the publications in which the taxon was first described. eg |
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| Nautilus | Vol 87/4 p91 | ||
| Compendium of Seashells | 278/3.3 | ||
| Shell Encyclopedia | 238 | ||
| The Shell Handbook | 201 | ||
| Collector's guide to Seashells of the World | 152/6 | ||
| M.B. Pocket Guide to Shells of the World | 151 | ||
| Eyewitness handbooks - Shells | 201 | ||
| 20.01 | 5th October 2007 | 40,448 taxa including 9,585 synonyms, 11,474 illustrated with 29,493 images. I have started introducing Nudibranchs, at this point only utilizing images from the excellent site of Maurice Jay - Seaslugs of Réunion & Mauritius |
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| 20.00 | 10th August 2007 | 40,448 taxa including 9,586 synonyms, 11,267 illustrated with 28,764 images. I have changed the treatment of invalidly named taxa - if they are synonyms of a valid taxon they appear on that page (as before), in some cases they continue to appear on a separate page, especially where their names appear in relateviely common usage. Otherwise, there is now a single page for invalid names for each Family. A great deal of work has been done on tidying up the Conus family, largely through the continuing efforts over many months of Paul Kersten who has been a tremendous support to me. |
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| 19.00 | 3rd June 2007 | 39,507 taxa including 8,710 synonyms, 11,155 illustrated with 28,145 images. I have finished "improving" nearly 5,000 images which were flaring out a lot of detail. The detail is now restored. Checking through the 1,000 actions continues. I have reorganised the directories to improve efficiency. This does mean that all images have been relocated and so any direct links to images will no longer work. I would like to mention here Didier Gille who is being immensely helpful finding images from around the web. |
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| 18.04 | 10th May 2007 | 39,226 taxa including 8,634 synonyms, 11,002 illustrated with 27,820 images. I have removed a significant number of "duplicates" ie same taxon appearing under different genera. Also, I am in the middle of doing a lot of tidying up, first step of which highlighted over 1,000 actions from validating names and spellings to rephotographing images. This will be ongoing for quite a while. |
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| 18.03 | 26th November 2006 | 39,357 taxa including 8,616 synonyms, 10,884 illustrated with 27,185 images. |
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| 18.02 | 6th November 2006 | 39,311 taxa including 8,614 synonyms, 10,831 illustrated with 27,011 images. |
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| 18.01 | 14th October 2006 | 39,293 taxa including 8,490 synonyms, 10,588 illustrated with 26,651 images. Slight change to the background behind the images - looks a bit better now. |
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| 18.00 | 18th September 2006 | 39,081 taxa including 8,606 synonyms, 10,488 illustrated with 26,091 images. |
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| 17.01 | 14th August 2006 | 38,817 taxa including 8,364 synonyms, 10,339 illustrated with 25,472 images. Added a few images taken at the Instituto Superior Alejandro Humboldt on the Galapágos Islands. |
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| 17.00 | 23rd June 2006 | 37,132 taxa including 8,104 synonyms, 10,008 illustrated with 24,932 images. Finally resolved a recently introduced bug causing the forward and back arrows to functino incorrectly. |
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| 16.01 | 23rd March, 2006 | 36,399 taxa including 7,808 synonyms, 9,804 illustrated with 23,969 images. Modified taxonomic index pages to give authors and types. Modified supra-generic taxonomy in line with Bouchet & Rocroi's "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families" - no doubt a lot more work will arise from this! Scrapped idea of including all formas, varieties etc on the "parent" taxon page |
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| 15.05 | 29th December, 2005 | 36,137 taxa including 7,679 synonyms, 9,748 illustrated with 23,767 images. Completed Tucker's mammoth Turrids. Started copyright marking images in response to images suppliers' complaints about rampant plagiarism. No conclusion yet on the possible change in handling to formas. Some pages would have a large number of such entries! |
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| 15.04 | 25th November, 2005 |
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| 15.03 | 10th September, 2005 |
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| 15.02 | 27th June, 2005 |
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| 15.01 | 18th May, 2005 |
Introduced family Babyloniidae, merged superfamily Volutoidea into Muricoidea |
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| 15.00 | 18th April, 2005 | Got myself an HTML checker - so this is the result! Nothing much to see but the HTML is much more "correct" and so hopefully will survive better in any browser. Only a small number of content changes. | |
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14.00 |
20th March, 2005 |
Lots of software & HTML tidying up. Problems with comms meant this is a much delayed update. 29,405 valid taxa including 3,848 synonyms, 9,751 illustrated with 22,284 images |
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13.05 |
20th November, 2004 |
Lots of tidying up thanks to advice received from increasing number of sources. 27,280 valid taxa including 2,979 synonyms, 9,371 illustrated with 21,344 images |
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13.04 |
1st October, 2004 |
Various catch-ups. Renamed Strombid genera by moving subgenera up to full genera. It will be interesting to see what if any response this provokes! 27,165 taxa, 9,245 illustrated with 20,932 images |
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13.03 |
17th July, 2004 |
Modified lots of images so the thumbnail index pages look much more "regular" |
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13.02 |
13th July, 2004 |
27,111 taxa, 9,154 illustrated with 20,697 images More work on management of synonyms |
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13.01 |
3rd June, 2004 |
25,548 taxa, 9,220 illustrated with 20,359 images. Management and presentation of synonyms improved. |
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12.00 |
14th March, 2004 |
23,930 taxa, 8,634 illustrated with 18,779 images Cones updated with enormous help from Mike Filmer both from his remarkable book (see book list) and from him personally. This genus is now "state-of-the-art". Status of names has now been introduced, primarily as a result of the work done by Mike Filmer |
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11.02 |
31st January, 2004 |
23,163 taxa, 8,453 illustrated with 18,340 images |
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11.01 |
18th October, 2003 |
22,728 taxa, 7,813 illustrated with 16,614 images A major review including correction of many synonyms and expansion of smaller genera |
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11.00 |
29th September, 2003 |
Introduced better way of dealing with the thumbnail indexes. Should be much faster now. |
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10.04 |
12th September, 2003 |
21,609 taxa, 7,822 illustrated with 16,486 images |
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10.03 |
19th August, 2003 |
20,043 taxa, 7,818 illustrated with 16,290 images |
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10.02 |
13th July, 2003 |
19,801 taxa, 7,727 illustrated with 15,995 images |
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10.01 |
1st July, 2003 |
First step in ordering the thumbnails - Strombus for example go by subgenus. |
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10.00 |
1st July, 2003 |
After much thought I finally introduced thumbnailed family index pages. Now the problem is getting a good taxonomic ordering so similar shells appear near each other in the thumbnails!!!! Oh, and subgrouping large families like Cones and Cypraea! 19,788 taxa, 7,637 illustrated with 15,665 images |
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9.01 |
27th May, 2003 |
19,764 taxa, 7,524 illustrated with 15,338 images |
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9.00 |
21st May, 2003 |
Major file structure change to allow duplicate genus/species combinations (eg Epitonium cancellata occurs 4 times) 19,690 taxa, 7,410 illustrated with 15,020 images |
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8.00 |
26th April, 2003 |
Behind the scenes update. The software managing common names is now fully automatic so discrepancies between navigation pages and target pages should be a thing of the past. |
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7.45 |
20th April, 2003 |
Another big update - few pictures but many more shells added |
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7.44 |
27th March, 2003 |
A big update after the epic trip around the Caribbean, Panama and up the Amazon as far as Manaus |
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7.43 |
7th January, 2003 |
Some tidying up before I disappear around the Caribbean and S America for 2 months |
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7.42 |
16th December, 2002 |
Added the wide range of images from Low Tide Shells |
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7.41 |
5th December, 2002 |
Catching up after 3 months USA/Canada holiday |
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7.40 |
1st September, 2002 |
Expanded Epitoniidae section dramatically, mainly following Bruce Neville's 1997 work "A Master Index to Species Names in the Family Epitoniidae" |
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7.39 |
26th August, 2002 |
12,191 taxa, 6,579 illustrated with 12,028 images |
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7.38 |
22nd August, 2002 |
11,804 taxa, 6,570 illustrated with 12,015 images |
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7.37 |
2nd August, 2002 |
11,724 taxa, 6,528 illustrated with 11,837 images |
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7.36 |
11th July, 2002 |
Changed home, country (NL to UK), life-style, email address, service provider |
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7.35 |
2nd June, 2002 |
11,473 taxa, 6,263 illustrated with 11,080 images |
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7.34 |
26th May, 2002 |
11,369 taxa, 6,241 illustrated with 11,020 images |
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7.33 |
15th May, 2002 |
11,297 taxa, 6,102 illustrated with 10,708 images |
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7.32 |
27th April, 2002 |
9,033 images of 5,421 different species etc |
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7.31 |
24th April, 2002 |
9,008 images of 5,418 different species etc |
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7.30 |
2nd April, 2002 |
8,832 images of 5,363 different species etc |
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7.25 |
18th March, 2002 |
Apart from new images, synchronised Ovulidae with the D. Fehse paper in Acta Conchyliorum, December, 2001 |
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7.20 |
2nd February, 2002 |
Fixed the case sensitivity and a couple of other problems |
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7.11 |
30th January, 2002 |
Moved to new service provider as my employers are downsizing (me and the server!) - big problems (new site is case-sensitive) |
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7.10 |
25th October, 2001 |
Revised Oliva following Tursch & Greifeneder, 2001.Not sure if they have the weight of authority but their splendid book certainly has the authority of weight!! Over 10,000 named forms, species, synonyms Over 8,000 images of 5,000 species/forms |
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7.00 |
5th May, 2001 |
Added version 1 of Common Name indexing |
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6.00 |
19th April, 2001 |
Introduced the Family to Class structure described in Fauna of Australia, 1998 |
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5.10 |
25th October, 2000 | More Mitres and Costellaridae thanks to Manfred Hermann. New contributor, Roger Rule, from Hawaii sending many interesting images. . . . and LOTS of superb images including many of less 'popular' shells from Kwansei Data Base Now nearly 6,900 images of over 4,500 named species/forms | |
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5.9 |
11th September, 2000 | Some improvements to Mitres and Costellaridae thanks to Manfred Hermann. Ever more images. now 5,990 illustrating 3,940 named species/forms |
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5.8 |
25th July, 2000 | Ever more images. now 5,480 illustrating 3,800 named species/forms | |
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5.7 |
4th April, 2000 | First of the new millenium and coming upto 4th birthday. Now 4,829 images from over 60 contributors illustrating 3,307 named species/forms, which means the site covers more shells even than the marvellous Compendium of Seashells, Abbot & Dance which has 3,097 gastropods (in the first edition)! Each version usually tightens up sequencing as I find reliable sources - the Femorale family list was very helpful in this latest version. | |
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5.6 |
10th December, 1999 | More images (and more to come - day job getting in the way at the moment) Now over 3,000 illustrated species. |
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5.5 |
6th September, 1999 | Added the new, excellent-looking Conchological Iconography - Harpidae by Poppe & Groh & Shells of the Philippines and at last got some sort of subgenus classification to Olives using Petuch & Sargent |
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5.4 |
15th July, 1999 | Habe & Ito books added - difficult as the books are in Japanese and the binomial names have many interesting errors (mainly spelling) - but 500 more shells now have references to pictures. Also first part of Poppe & Groh's Conchological Iconography on Harps Ever more people sending images for including in the site! |
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5.3 |
19th May, 1999 | More and better images - now over 3,600 images of 2,600 species. Most new ones thanks to Guido Poppe again but check out the Conus spurius pages! | |
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5.2 |
8th February, 1999 | More images | |
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5.1 |
18th January, 1999 | Replaced lots of poorer images Easier referencing to find shells in books with lots of shells per page (not completed for all books yet) Great Xenophoridae images thanks to Mike and Kathy Gage The number of contributors keeps growing - Russell Webb's images of NW USA shells are excellent and I look forward to many more from him | |
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5.0 |
16th November, 1998 | Amended Cypraea as per Lorenz list, July, 1998 More images - 2,900 illustrating 2,100 different shells Improved the taxonomy navigation by separating the Family index pages, and by adding ability to "back-up" from Family to Superfamily to Class in the navigation pages Internally, restructured all the directories for performance and ease of maintenance . . . and have recently moved to own domain | |
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4.2 |
1st August, 1998 | Acknowledgements for photos on every page. Lots more images (thanks mainly to a - George Sangiouloglou& b - my new digital camera) Now 2,600 images of 1,900 shells | |
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4.1 |
23rd June, 1998 | LOTS more images (thanks mainly to Guido Poppe) Started moving to classification as per Ponder & Warén, 1988 (this will be continuous from now on!) Broke up Alphabetic indexing to reduce index page sizes | |
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4.0 |
6th April, 1998 | Added Shell size information | |
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3.1 |
23rd March, 1998 | Removed last traces of non-Gastropods. More shells, tidying up synonyms (never ending!) More pictures (more of my own plus thanks to everyone who sends images). | |
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3.0 |
27th January, 1998 | Removed non-Gastropods. More shells, more pictures, more books. | |
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2.4 |
8th December, 1997 | More shells, more pictures, more books. | |
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2.3 |
6th October, 1997 | Added subspecies/forms to alphabetic search pages. (eg Conus nobilis skinneri now under "nobilis" on N page and "skinneri" on SH page) Introduced magazines / volume information (small change on web page, huge change in the underlying database structure!) |
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2.2 |
19th August, 1997 | More Pictures Removed my cabinet references from on-line version | |
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2.1 |
23rd July, 1997 | Fixed a bug causing Internet Explorer format problems in "tree" pages Lots of "Authors" and Years of description added.but not to Cypraeidae, Conidae, Volutidae | |
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2 |
14th July, 1997 | Several Bugs Removed (This is a Conchology site, not Entomology) Many More Shells (Total 5,000 excluding synonyms) Many More images (1,500 illustrations of 1,200 shells) Better Taxonomic Order (especially Cowries,Cones, Volutes) Moved to AT&T-Unisource Site | |
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