Malacology Resources
Ongoing Projects
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Alcohol rehousing project: An NSF-funded project to rehouse and inventory the entire Malacology fluid-preserved collection in equipment of a new design.
Type imaging project: An NSF-funded project to locate and verify type lots in the Malacology collection and image all primary types. The images are searchable through the on-line Malacology collection database.
Electronic inventory: The first full inventory of the collection in 40 years, based on a comprehensive systematic revision and providing an up-to-date online identification for every lot.
Callomon; Taxonomy of the gastropod genus Fusinus: Long-term collaborative review of the marine gastropod genus Fusinus in various parts of the world, with Dr. M. A. Snyder and W. G. Lyons.
Callomon; Development of imaging equipment: Development and prototyping of static and 3D-motion specimen mounts (Holds US patent for robotic 3D mount developed with Drexel University Department of Engineering). Development of standard protocols for imaging mollusks.
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Links of Interest
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The Malacology Department maintains its own research website. This site hosts a number of Malacology collection and research databases. More information can be found via the following (external) links:
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Publications
Callomon, P. & Snyder, M. A. 2004. On some Fusinus (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae) from Japan, with type selections. Venus 63 (1-2): 13-27, 22 figs.
Callomon, P. & Petit, R. E. 2004. Tadashige Habe’s ‘Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan (II)’ and ‘Shells of the Western Pacific in Colour Vol. 2’: comparison of printings and treatments of included taxa. Venus, supplement 3: 1-60.
Callomon, P. & Tada, A. 2006. Yoichiro Hirase and his role in Japanese Malacology. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 4: 52 pp, 18 pls. Nishinomiya Shell Museum, Hyogo, Japan.
Callomon, P. & Snyder, M. A. 2006. On the genus Fusinus in Japan II: F. undatus, F. similis and related Pacific taxa, with the description of F. mauiensis n. sp. (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae). Venus 65 (3): 177-191.
Callomon, P. & Snyder, M. A. 2007. On the genus Fusinus in Japan III: nine further species, with type selections. Venus 66 (1-2): 19-47.
Callomon, P. & Snyder, M. A. 2008. On the genus Fusinus in Japan IV: F. longissimus (Gmelin, 1791) and two new species. Venus 67 (1-2): 1-13.
Callomon, P. & Snyder, M. A. 2009. On the genus Fusinus in Japan V: further species, an unnamed form and discussion. Venus 67 (3-4): 159-172.
Callomon, P. & Snyder, M. A. 2009. On some Fusinus from the East and South China Seas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae), with description of a new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 158: 209-219.
Snyder, M. A. & P. Callomon. 2010. Tapparone-Canefri’s type material of fasciolariid Gastropoda (Mollusca) at the Genoa Natural History Museum. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 159: 31-38.
Callomon, P. & Rosenberg, G. 2012. A grand scale: rehousing the mollusk collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Collections Forum 26 (1-2): 31-49.
Callomon, P. & Lawless, A. S. 2013. On the Recent members of the genus Lirabuccinum Vermeij, 1991, in the northern Pacific, with description of a new species. Venus 71 (1-2): 13-27.
Callomon, P. 2015. On the authorship and types of three Ogasawara helicinids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences 164: 21-29.
Callomon, P. 2016. An alternative to gelatin capsules in natural history collections. SPNHC leaflet no. 7.
Callomon, P. & Snyder, M. A. 2017. A new genus and nine new species in the Fasciolariidae (Gastropoda: Buccinoidea) from southern California and western Mexico. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences 165 (1): 55-80.
Callomon, P. 2017. Museum specimens and their meanings. 94-104 in Nishida, H., Yokoyama, J., Wagstaff, S. J. & Callomon, P. (Eds), DAB: Disaster and Biodiversity. Biology International Special Issue 36.