Projects
Projects of interest to biologists, professional malacologists, and serious amateur collectors.
Dilemma japonicum new species: a new record of the genus from the Northwest Pacific
Takenori Sasaki of the University Museum, Tokyo, and Shell Museum director José H. Leal name a new species of the bivalve genus Dilemma.
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A remarkable new genus of carnivorous, sessile bivalves!
A publication by Museum director José H. Leal in the journal Zootaxa, Volume 1764, 7 May 2008.
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Deepest Atlantic Mollusks
In 1999 museum director Dr. José H. Leal published, with Smithsonian curator Dr. Jerry Harasewych, a study on deepest Atlantic mollusks. The research was based on material collected by the University of Miami ships in the 1960s and 1970s. The resulting article (in PDF format below) was published in Invertebrate Biology.
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FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes
The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic: Bivalves and Gastropods
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Informal workshop on the Conus cardinalis complex
Held at the Shell Museum on February 9, 2001.
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Living Fossils of the Deep: An Expedition to the Bahamian Seafloor
With thanks to the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and its staff members Dr. M. G. Harasewych, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, and Robert Costello, Multimedia Specialist.
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