Bibliography of the terrestrial molluscs of British Columbia (BC)
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Baird, W. 1863. Descriptions of some new species of shells, collected at Vancouver Island and in British Columbia by J.K. Lord, Esq., naturalist to the British North American Boundary Commission, in the years 1858-1862. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 66-71.
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Baker, H.B. 1930. The land snail genus Haplotrema. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 82(1930): 405-425, pl. 33-35.
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Baker, H.B. 1930. The North American Retinellae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 83(1930): 193-219, pl. 9-14.
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Baxter, R 1987. Mollusks of Alaska. Bayside, Calif.: Shells and Sealife. 163 p.
Non-critical list of species known from BC based on literature
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Berry, S.S. 1922. Land snails from the Canadian Rockies. Victoria Memorial Museum, Bulletin 36: 1-19.
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Binney, W.G. 1878. The terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States and the adjacent territories of North America. Vol. V. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 4: iv + [2] +1-[440] + [2] + [440]-449, 74 pl. + 16 pl.
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Binney, W.G. 1885. A manual of American land shells. United States National Museum, Bulletin 28: 528 p.
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Binney, W.G., Bland, T. 1869. Land and freshwater shells of North America. Part I. Pulmonata Geophila. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 194: xii + 316 p.
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Blood, B.A. 1963. Parasites from California bighorn sheep in southern British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Zoology 41(4): 913-918.
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Branson, B.A. 1969. Distribution notes on western and southern snails. Sterkiana 36: 21.
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Branson, B.A. 1977. Freshwater and terrestrial Mollusca of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. The Veliger 19: 310-330.
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Branson, B.A. 1980. Collections of gastropods from the Cascade Mountains of Washington. The Veliger 23: 171-176.
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Caesar, N.H. 1946. A roundup of Cochlicopa lubrica. The Nautilus 60(2): 72.
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Cameron, R.A.D. 1986. Environment and diversities of forest snail faunas from coastal British Columbia. Malacologia 27(2): 341-355.
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Cameron, R.A.D. 1988. Incomplete convergence of shell sizes and shapes in forest snail faunas from two continents: a relic of environmental history?. Malacologia 28(1-2): 147-157.
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Campbell, R.W., Stirling, D. 1968. Notes on the natural history of Cleland Island, British Columbia, with emphasis on the breeding bird fauna. Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology 1967: HH25-HH43.
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Carl, G.C. 1943. The natural history of the Forbidden Plateau area, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology 1942: R18-D19-D40, 1 map, 1 pl.
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Carl, G.C. 1951. Biology of the Scott Island Group, British Columbia. Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology, Report for the Year 1950: B21-B63.
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Carl, G.C., Guiguet, C.J. 1956. Notes on the flora and fauna of Bunsby Islands, British Columbia. Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology, Report for the Year 1955: D31-D44.
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Carl, G.C., Guiguet, C.J. 1957. Alien animals in British Columbia (Handbook No. 14). Victoria: British Columbia Provincial Museum.
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Carl, G.C., Guiguet, C.J. 1972. Alien animals in British Columbia. (Handbook No. 14), 2nd ed. rev. by C.J. Guiguet. Victoria: British Columbia Provincial Museum.
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Carl, G.C., Guiguet, C.J., Hardy, G.A. 1952. A natural history survey of the Manning Park area, British Columbia. Occasional Papers of the British Columbia Provincial Museum 9: [4] + 1-130 + [13] pl.
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Carl, G.C., Hardy, G.A. 1945. Flora and fauna of the Paradise Mine area, British Columbia. Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology 1944: C18-C38.
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Carpenter, P.P. 1857. Report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the west coast of North America. Report of the Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: Held at Cheltenham in August 1856 : London: John Murray. 159-368, pl. 6-9.
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Carpenter, P.P. 1872. The mollusks of western North America. Embracing the second report made to the British Association on this subject, with other papers; reprinted with permission, with a general index. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 252: xii + 325 + 121 p.
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Clarke, A.H. Jr. 1969. The Mollusca of Canada. P. 12-14 in: Animal life in Canada today. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada.
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Cockerell, T.D.A. 1890. New western slugs. The Nautilus 3(10): 111-113.
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Cockerell, T.D.A. 1891. The slugs of British Columbia. The Nautilus 5(3): 30-32.
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COSEWIC 2002. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the dromedary jumping-slug, Hemphillia dromedarius, in Canada. Ottawa: Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. vi + 21 p.
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COSEWIC 2002. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Oregonian forestsnail, Allogona townsendiana, in Canada. Ottawa: Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. vi + 20 p.
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COSEWIC 2002. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Puget oregonian, Cryptomastix devia, in Canada. Ottawa: Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. vi + 20 p.
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COSEWIC 2002. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the warty jumping-slug, Hemphillia glandulosa, in Canada. Ottawa: Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. vi + 19 p.
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COSEWIC 2006. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the blue-grey taildropper, Prophysaon coeruleum, in Canada. Ottawa: Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. vi + 27 p.
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COSEWIC 2010. COSEWIC assessment and status report on Threaded Vertigo Vertigo sp. Ottawa: Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. x + 36 p.
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Dall, W.H. 1905. Land and fresh water mollusks. Harriman Alaska Expedition 13: New York: Doubleday, Page and Co. 171 p. + 2 pl.
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Davis, D.S. 1993. Where in the world is Helix aspersa?. The Papustyla 7(1): 1-7.
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Drake, R.J. 1963. The history of nonmarine malacology in British Columbia. National Museum of Canada, Bulletin 185: 1-16.
Draycot, W.M. 1961. Mollusks introduced into British Columbia. The Canadian Field-Naturalist 75(3): 164.
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Dundee, D.S., Dundee, H.A. 1958. Extensions of the known ranges of 4 mollusks. The Nautilus 72(2): 51-53.
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Eyerdam, W.J. 1940. Extension of range of Monadenia semialba Henderson. The Nautilus 53(3): 108.
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Eyerdam, W.J. 1940. The northern range of Monadenia fidelis Gray. The Nautilus 53(3): 107.
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Forsyth, R.G. 1999. Distributions of nine new or little-known exotic land snails in British Columbia. The Canadian Field-Naturalist 113(4): 559-568.
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Forsyth, R.G. 1999. Lindeman Lake, British Columbia, type locality of Zonitoides randolphi Pilsbry. The Veliger 42(3): 286.
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Forsyth, R.G. 1999. Terrestrial gastropods of the Columbia Basin, British Columbia (Living Landscapes, Royal British Columbia Museum).
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Forsyth, R.G. 2000. The land snail Cryptomastix germana (Gastropoda: Polygyridae) in the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia: a range range extension north from Vancouver Island. The Canadian Field-Naturalist 114(2): 316-317.
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Forsyth, R.G. 2001. A note on the distribution of Striatura pugetensis in British Columbia. The Festivus 33(5): 57-58.
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Forsyth, R.G. 2001. First records of the European land slug Lehmannia valentiana in British Columbia. The Festivus 33(7): 75-78.
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Forsyth, R.G. 2001. Reidentification of slugs from seabird nesting burrows off the west coast of Vancouver Island. The Festivus 33(1): 9-10.
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Forsyth, R.G. 2002. New records for land snails from the mountains of northwestern British Columbia. The Canadian Field-Naturalist 115(2): 223-228.
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Forsyth, R.G. 2004. Gastrocopta in British Columbia (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Vertiginidae). The Festivus 36(5): 53-55.
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Forsyth, R.G. 2004. Land Snails of British Columbia. (Royal BC Museum Handbook). Victoria: Royal British Columbia Museum. vi + 188 pp., [8] pls.
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Forsyth, R.G. 2005. Terrestrial gastropods of the Peace River – northern Rockies of British Columbia (Living Landscapes, Royal British Columbia Museum). 23 p.
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Forsyth, R.G. 2005. Terrestrial gastropods of the upper Fraser basin of British Columbia (Living Landscapes, Royal British Columbia Museum). 26 p.
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Forsyth, R.G. 2008. First record of the European land snail Trochulus striolatus in British Columbia, Canada (Pulmonata: Hygromiidae). The Festivus 40(6): 76-78.
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Forsyth, R.G., Hutchinson, J.M.C., Reise, H. 2001. Aegopinella nitidula (Draparnaud, 1805) (Gastropoda: Zonitidae) in British Columbia — first confirmed North American record. American Malacological Bulletin 16(1/2): 65-69.
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Forsyth, R.G., Williston, P. 2012. Terrestrial snails from an urban park in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Festivus 44(7): 77-80.
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Frest, T.J., Johannes, E.J. 2000 [2001]. An annotated checklist of Idaho land and freshwater mollusks. Journal of the Idaho Academy of Sciences 36(2): 1-51.
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Gerber, J. 1996. Revision der Gattung Vallonia Risso 1826 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Valloniidae). Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur — Cismar 8: 1-227.
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Grass, A.L. 1965. An introduced population of Helix nemoralis Linne [sic]. Pacific Northwest Shell News 4(6): 5a.
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Grass, A.L. 1966. Some land and freshwater Mollusca from British Columbia, Canada. Part I. Hawaiian Shell News 14(5): 4.
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Grass, A.L. 1966. Some land and freshwater Mollusca from British Columbia, Canada. Part II (conclusion). Hawaiian Shell News 14(6): 6-7.
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Grass, A.L. 1967. On Vallonia pulchella. Pacific Northwest Shell News 7(3): 43-44.
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Grimm, F.W., Forsyth, R.G., Schueler, F.W., Karstad, A. 2009 [2011]. Identifying Land Snails and Slugs in Canada: Introduced Species and Native Genera. Ottawa: Canadian Food Inspection Agency. iv + 168 pp.
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Haas, F. 1954. Non-marine mollusks from the Pacific Slope of North America. The Nautilus 67(3): 94-96.
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Hanham, A.W. 1914. Notes on mollusks from British Columbia. The Nautilus 28(8): 87-88.
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Hanham, A.W. 1926. Hemphillia malonei Van. The Nautilus 39(4): 143-144.
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Hanna, G D. 1923. A new species of Carychium from Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4) 12(5): 51-53.
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Hanna, G D. 1966. Introduced mollusks of western North America. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (4) 48: 1-108, 4 pl.
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Hansen, B.N. 1985. Cepaea nemoralis in British Columbia. Western Society of Malacologists Annual Report 18(1985): 18.
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Hardy, G.A. 1949. A report on a study of Jordan Meadows. Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology, Report for the Year 1948: K20-K46.
Hardy, G.A. 1955. The natural history of the Forbidden Plateau area, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology, Report for the Year 1954: B24-B63.
Harris, S.A., Hubricht, L. 1982. Distribution of the species of the genus Oxyloma (Mollusca: Succineidae) in southern Canada and the adjacent portions of the United States. Canadian Journal of Zoology 60(7): 1607-1611.
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Henderson, J. 1927. Mollusk notes from the northwest. The Nautilus 40(3): 75-78.
Several species are listed from Whitehorse and Atlin, Yukon Territory [sic] but it is unclear which species were found where
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Henderson, J. 1929. The non-marine Mollusca of Oregon and Washington. The University of Colorado Studies 17(2): 47-280.
Henderson, J. 1936. The non-marine Mollusca of Oregon and Washington — supplement. The University of Colorado Studies 23: 251-279.
Holm, G. 1988. Lauria cylindracea (Da Coata) [sic] a new introduced species to North America. Dredgings [Pacific Northwest Shell Club, Seattle] 28(6): 5, 8.
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Holm, G. 1994. A second find of Lauria cylindracea. Dredgings [Pacific Northwest Shell Club, Seattle] 34(3): 3-5.
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Holm, G. 2010. Exotic species of land snails from Mount Vernon, WA and Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver, B.C. The Dredgings 50(3): 3-4.
Kalas, L. 1978. Freshwater and some terrestrial Mollusca from the Okanagan valley, British Columbia. Project GW-67-6, Autoecology of shelled invertebrates. Burlington, Ont.: National Water Research Institute, Canada Centre for Inland Waters; unpublished report. Unpaginated.
Kerney, M. 1999. Atlas of the land and freshwater molluscs of Britain and Ireland. Colchester, U.K.: Harley Books. 264 p.
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Kozloff, E.N., Vance, J. 1958. Systematic status of Hemphillia malonei. The Nautilus 72(2): 42-49.
La Rocque, A. 1953. Catalogue of the Recent Mollusca of Canada. National Museum of Canada, Bulletin 129: x + 406 p.
Lord, J.K. 1866. The naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia. London: Richard Bentley. 1: xvi + 358 p.; 2: x + 375 p.
Includes reprint of Baird's (1863) descriptions of new species
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Mant, C.F. 1923. Observations on land shells of Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. The Nautilus 36(3): 106.
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Martin, M. 2001. Cover illustration and story. Newspacket [North Okanagan Naturalists Club] 28(7): 2.
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Mienis, H.K. 1985. The brown garden snail, Helix aspersa, in Canada. Shellnews from Vancouver 6(1): 2-5.
Neckheim, C.M. 1997. A visit to Canada with notes on molluscs from the vicinity of Vancouver and Edmonton. The Papustyla 11(3): 1-10.
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Newcomb, W 1865. Catalogue of Helices inhabiting the West Coast of America, north of Cape St. Lucas, and west of the Rocky Mountains; together with remarks upon some of the animals, and their special distribution. American Journal of Conchology 1: 342-350.
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Newcomb, W. 1866. Addition to "Catalogue of Helices inhabiting the west coast of North America, north of Cape St. Lucas". American Journal of Conchology 2: 13.
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Ovaska, K., Leonard, W.P., Chichester, L., Baugh, J., Reise, H. 2002. Anatomy of the dromedary jumping-slug, Hemphillia dromediarius Branson, 1972 (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Arionidae), with new distributional records. The Nautilus 116(3): 89-94.
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Ovaska, K., Leonard, W.P., Chichester, L., Burke, T.E. 2004. Prophysaon coeruleum Cockerell, 1890, Blue-gray Taildropper (Gastropoda: Arionidae): new distributional records and reproductive anatomy. Western North American Naturalist 64(4): 538-543.
Additional authors: L. Sopuck, J. Baugh
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Pfeiffer, L. 1850. Descriptions of twenty-four new species of Helicea, from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1849: 126-131.
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Pilsbry, H.A. 1898. Descriptions of new species and varieties of American Zonitidae and Endodontidae. The Nautilus 12(8): 86-87.
Pilsbry, H.A. 1899. A new species of Pristiloma. The Nautilus 13(3): 36.
Brief publication notice of Pilsbry (1899)
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Pilsbry, H.A. 1899. New and little-known species of Pristiloma. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1899: 185-187.
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Pilsbry, H.A. 1899. Notes on a few northwest American land snails. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1899: 314-315.
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Pilsbry, H.A. 1919. [Pupillidae; Subfamily Gastrocoptinae (continued), Subfamily Vertigininae]. Manual of Conchology, Structural and Systematic, with Illustrations of the Species. Second Series: Pulmonata 25(98): 65-144, pl. 6-10.
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Pilsbry, H.A. 1922. Description of a new Zonitoides. The Nautilus 36(2): 38-39.
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Pilsbry, H.A. 1923. A new species of Carychium from Vancouver Island. The Nautilus 36(4): 141.
Publication notice of Hanna (1923)
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Pilsbry, H.A. 1934. Notes on the anatomy of Oreohelix,—III, with descriptions of new species and subspecies. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 85(1933): 383-410, pl. 14-15.
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Pilsbry, H.A. 1939. Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico), 1 (1). The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monographs 3: i-xvii + 1-573 + i-ix p.
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Pilsbry, H.A. 1940. Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico), 1 (2). The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monographs 3: i-viii + 574-994 + i-ix.
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Pilsbry, H.A. 1946. Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico), 2 (1). The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monographs 3: frontispiece, i-vi + 1-520.
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Pilsbry, H.A. 1948. Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico), 2 (2). The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monographs 3: i-xlvii + 521-1113.
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Pilsbry, H.A., Cooke, C.M. 1922. Land shells of Vancouver Island. The Nautilus 36(2): 37-38.
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Pilsbry, H.A., Vanatta, E.G. 1900. A partial revision of the pupae of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Scienes of Philadelphia 52(1900): 582-611, pl. 22.
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Proux, G., Bernier, D., Heron, J.H., Paige, K.A. 2003. A field guide to species at risk in the Coast Forest Region of British Columbia. Victoria: Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection / International Forest Products. 151 p.
Randolph, P.B. 1899. Collecting shells in the Klondike Country. The Nautilus 12(10): 109-112.
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Reise, H., Hutchinson, J.M.C., Forsyth, R.G., Forsyth, T.J. 2000. The ecology and rapid spread of the terrestrial slug Boettgerilla pallens in Europe with reference to its recent discovery in North America. The Veliger 43(4): 313-318.
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Reise, H., Hutchinson, J.M.C., Schunack, S, Schlitt, B 2011. Deroceras panormitanum and congeners from Malta and Sicily, with a redescription of the widespread pest slug as Deroceras invadens n. sp. Folia Malacologica 19(4): 201-223.
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Rollo, C.D. 1991. Endogenous and exogenous regulation of activity in Deroceras reticulatum, a weather-sensitive terrestrial slug. Malacologia 33(1-2): 199-220.
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Rollo, C.D., Wellington, W.G. 1975. Terrestrial slugs in the vicinity of Vancouver, British Columbia. The Nautilus 89(4): 107-115.
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Roth, B., Willer, W.B. 1993. Polygyrid land snails, Vespericola (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), 1. Species and populations formerly referred to Vespericola columbianus (Lea) in California. The Veliger 36(2): 134-144.
Smith, A.G. 1943. Mollusks of the Clearwater Mountains, Idaho. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4) 23(36): 537-554.
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Spencer, G.J. 1961. A record of slugs in Vancouver gardens. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 58: 47-48.
Stanwell-Fletcher, J.F., Stanwell-Fletcher, T.C. 1943. Some accounts of the flora and fauna of the Driftwood Valley region of north central British Columbia. Occasional Papers of the British Columbia Provincial Museum 4: 97 p.
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Taylor, G.W. 1889. The land shells of Vancouver Island. The Ottawa Naturalist 3: 84-94.
Taylor, G.W. 1891. Limax agrestis Linn. on the Pacific Coast. The Nautilus 5(8): 92-93.
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Taylor, G.W. 1891. Land shells of Vancouver Island. The Nautilus 5(8): 91-92.
The same list, reprinted from Taylor (1889), but without the annotations
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Taylor, G.W. 1895. Preliminary catalogue of the marine Mollusca of the Pacific coast of Canada. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada (2) 1: 17-100.
Taylor, G.W. 1899. Two land shells new to the Canadian list. The Ottawa Naturalist 13: 202-203.
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Taylor, G.W. 1900. Hemphillia glandulosa. A slug new to the Canadian list. The Canadian Field-Naturalist 14: 150-151.
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Vanatta, E. G. 1906. British Columbia shells. The Nautilus 20(8): 95.
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Whiteaves, J.F. 1887. On some marine invertebrata dredged or otherwise collected by Dr. G. M. Dawson, in 1885, in the
northern part of the Strait of Georgia, in Discovery Passage, Johnstone Strait, and Queen Charlotte and Quatsino
Sounds, British Columbia; with a supplementa. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 1886(4): 111-134.
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Whiteaves, J.F. 1902. Notes on some fresh-water and land shells from Keewatin, northern Ontario and British Columbia. The Ottawa Naturalist 16(4): 91-93.
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Whiteaves, J.F. 1905. Some new localities for Canadian land and freshwater shells. The Ottawa Naturalist 19(9): 169-171.
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Whiteaves, J.F. 1906. Notes on some land and fresh water shells from British Columbia. The Ottawa Naturalist 20(6): 115-119.
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Wilke, T., Duncan, N. 2004. Phylogeographical pattern in the American Pacific Northwest: lessons from the arionid slug Prophysaon coeruleum. Molecular Ecology 13: 2303-2315.
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[Latchford, F.R.], [Whiteaves, J.F.] 1904. Introduced Mollusca. The Ottawa Naturalist 18(4): 92.
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