General shell discussions on shelled to unshelled molluscs. All Molluscan board posts are publicly visible (including remote-linked images and video clips) to guests (non-registered users) except files which are uploaded directly from this board.

Identification query and help from the community.

Posts of your local or overseas trips regarding molluscs.

Query, help or anything on taking good and clear photos (live or empty shells) of shells for the web, books, archives or papers.

Announce your (or somebody) book or paper here, be it new or not. You can ask the community about papers you wanted. Full citation prefered. Articles may be reproduced for educational and informational purposes.

Management, papers, maintenance, deposition, database, storing, preservation, cleaning, valuation, etc. about your (or somebody/museum) collection; as a reference or not.

Shell shows, courses, studies, exhibitions, conferences, gatherings or meetings from the world over.

Crooks and fraudalent side of things in the shell world. Yes, feel free to send posts here, to alert fellow enthusiasts.

Specimens for free, loan, exchange, sale or wanted.

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