Dr Donald F. McMichael CBE—his malacological contributions

Malacological Bibliography

• Note: book reviews, some minor articles and non-molluscan works are not listed.
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• Boray, J. & McMichael, D.F. (1961) The identity of the Australian lymnaeid snail host of Fasciola hepatica L. and its response to environment. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 12, 150–163. doi: 10.1071/MF9610150
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• Colman, P. & McMichael, D.F. (1994) Obituary: Lance Moore, 1928–1994. Australasian Shell News 87, 6–7 (reprinted in Of Sea and Shore 18, 158–162).
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• Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. (1962) A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Australian Museum Memoir 11, 1–109. doi: 10.3853/j.0067-1967.11.1962.426
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• McMichael, D.F. (1950) A molluscan ‘Moby Dick’—an albino snail. Australian Museum Magazine 10, 59–60.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1952a) The shells of rivers and lakes—I. Australian Museum Magazine 10, 348–352.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1952b) The shells of rivers and lakes—II. Australian Museum Magazine 11, 397–401.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1953) The shells of rivers and lakes—III. Australian Museum Magazine 11, 30–33.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1955a) Gene exchanges in freshwater mussel population (Abstract). American Malacological Union Annual Report. 20th Annual Meeting 1954, 11–12.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1955b) The identity and validity of Hyridella australis (Lamarck 1819). The Nautilus 69, 6–13.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1956a) Collector’s items: volute shells of the genus Amoria. Australian Museum Magazine 12, 23–26.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1956b) Dispersal and speciation in freshwater mussels (Abstract). The Australian Journal of Science 19, 31.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1956c) Problems of family nomenclature. Systematic Zoology 5, 141–142. doi: 10.2307/2411575
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• McMichael, D.F. (1956d) Trigonia—a living fossil. Australian Museum Magazine 12, 82–84. (Reprinted in part in Nature, 179, 192 [1957]).
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• McMichael, D.F. (1956e) Notes on the freshwater mussels of New Guinea. The Nautilus 70, 38–48.
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• McMichael, D.F. & Whitley, G.P. (1956) The published writings of Tom Iredale with an index of his new scientific names. Australian Zoologist 12, 211–250.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1957a) Poisonous bites by octopus. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 76, 110–111.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1957b) A review of the fossil freshwater mussels of Australasia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of N.S.W. 81, 222–224.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1957c) Support for A.E. Ellis proposals to validate the currently accepted usage of the generic name Unio Philipsson, 1788. Opinions and Declarations. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 17, 307–309.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1958a) Another octopus bite. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 77, 92.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1958b) Notes from New Guinea (Abstract). American Malacological Union Annual Report. Annual Meeting Bulletin 1957, 4–5.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1958c) Land of the tree-climbing snails. Australian Museum Magazine 12, 297–299.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1958d) A new name for the Heron Island volute. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 77, 148–152.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1958e) The nature and origin of the New Zealand freshwater mussel fauna. Transactions of the Royal Zoological Society of New Zealand 85, 427–432.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1958f) A new tree-snail from North Queensland. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(2), 41–43.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1958g) New Guinea: physical geography and environment. Australian Museum Magazine 12, 377–379.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1959a) The rediscovery of Ternivoluta studeri Martens (Mollusca Volutidae). Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 78, 60–62.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1959b) Marine Mollusca of eastern Australia. 1. The genus Cymbiolacca Iredale. (Family Volutidae). Australian Zoologist 12, 374–383.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1959c) These shellfish are good to eat. Australian Museum Magazine 13, 90–93.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1959d) Obituary—Charles Francis Laseron. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(3), 3.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1959e) Notes on littorinid nomenclature. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(3), 25–28.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1959f) A new genus and species of land snail from North Queensland. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(3), 31–32.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1959g) Neopilina—a molluscan missing link. Australian Museum Magazine 13, 133–136.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1960a) Notes on some Australian Volutidae. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(4), 4–13.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1960b) Some common shells of the Australian seashore. Jacaranda Press, Brisbane.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1961a) New species and new records of marine Mollusca from Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(5), 51–57.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1961b) Another poisonous octopus bite. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(5), 58.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1961c) Pearls, the jewels of the sea. Australian Museum Magazine 13, 385–388.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1962a) Baler shells. Australian Museum Magazine 14, 24–27.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1962b) Comments on the proposed use of the plenary powers to suppress the generic name Pupa Röding, 1798. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 19, 260.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1963a) Dangerous marine molluscs. Bulletin of the Post-graduate Committee in Medicine, University of Sydney 18, 74–80.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1963b) Descriptions of two new species of the genus Cymbiolacca Iredale (Gastropoda: Volutidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(7), 33–41.
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• McMichael, D. F. (1963c). Personality of the month [autobiographical essay]. Hawaiian Shell News 11, 6.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1964a) The ‘Glory of the Seas’. Australian Natural History 14, 280.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1964b) Notes on the genera Amoria Gray, 1855 and Zebramoria Iredale, 1924, (Gastropoda: Volutidae), with descriptions of new species. Records of the Australian Museum 26, 265–274. doi: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.26.1964.676
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• McMichael, D.F. (1964c) The genus Amimopina Iredale, 1933. The Nautilus 78, 52–54.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1964c) How to make a shell collection. Australian Natural History 14, 369–371.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1964d) Land and freshwater shells of Australia. Australian Natural History 14, 384–390.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1964e) The golden cowry. Australian Natural History 14, 404.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1964f) The identity of the venomous octopus responsible for a fatal bite at Darwin, Northern Territory. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(8), 23–24.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1964g) A new Murex from the Great Australian Bight. (Gastropoda: Muricidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(8), 31–32.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1964h) Who’s who in the M.S.A. William J. Clench. Australian Newsletter 12(45), 7.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1964i) The classification of the family Volutidae. Poirieria 2(1), 12–17.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1964j) Tentative classification of the Australian freshwater Mollusca. Newsletter, Australian Society of Limnology 3, 6–8.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1965a) Comment on the proposed designation of type-species for six genera in the superfamily Muricacea. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 22, 146–147. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.11074
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• McMichael, D.F. (1965b) Molluscs. In: Pratt, B.W. (Ed.), Encyclopaedia Year Book 1965, Australian Edition. Grolier Society, Sydney, pp. 184–185.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1966a) A new subspecies of Volutoconus grossi (Iredale) (Gastropoda: Volutidae) from North Queensland. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(9), 53–56.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1966b) Desert snails. Australian Natural History 15, 190–193.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1966c) Distribution and evolution of the family Volutidae (Abstract). Science Council of Japan. Proceedings of the Eleventh Pacific Science Congress 5, 19.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1966d). Obituary notice [B. C. Cotton]. Australian Newsletter 14, 4.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1967) Australian freshwater molluscs and their probable evolutionary relationships: a summary of present knowledge. In: Weatherley, A.W. (Ed.), Australian Inland Waters and their Fauna: Eleven Studies. ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 123–149.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1968a) Non-marine Mollusca from Tertiary rocks in Northern Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources Australia – Bulletin 80, 135–158.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1968b) Obituary—J. A. (Tony) Marsh. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(11), 5–6, portrait.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1969) Mollusks—classification, distribution, venom apparatus and venoms, symptomatology of stings. In: Bücherl, W. & Buckley, E.E. (Eds), Venomous Animals and their Venoms. Academic Press, New York, pp. 373–393.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1969) Brazier, John William (1842–1930). Australian Dictionary of Biography 3, 221–222.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1972) Molluscs. In: Ryan, P. (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Papua and New Guinea. Melbourne University Press and University of Papua and New Guinea, Melbourne, vol. 1, pp. 789–792.
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• McMichael, D. F. (1973) Conservation of freshwater animals. Bulletin, Australian Society of Limnology 1, 2.
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• McMichael, D. F. (1974) Growth rate, population size and mantle coloration in the small giant clam Tridacna maxima (Röding), at One Tree Island, Capricorn Group, Queensland. Proceedings of the International Coral Reef Symposium 2, 241–254.
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• McMichael, D.F. (1993) Allan, Catherine Mabel Joyce (1896–1966). Australian Dictionary of Biography 13, 25–26.
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• McMichael, D.F. & Hiscock, I.D. (1958) A monograph of the freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Pelecypoda) of the Australian region. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 9, 372–508. doi: 10.1071/MF9580372
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• McMichael, D.F. & Iredale, T. (1959) The land and freshwater Mollusca of Australia. In: Keast, A., Crocker, R.L. & Christian, C.S. (Eds), Biogeography and Ecology in Australia, Vol. VIII. Junk, Den Haag, Netherlands, pp. 224–245.
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• McMichael, D.F. & Voorwinde, J. (1966) Illustrations of unfigured New South Wales marine molluscs, Part 1. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(10), 13–20.
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• McMichael, D.F. & Whitley, G. P. (1961) A bibliography of Charles Francis Laseron with an index to his new genera and species. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 79, 114–130.
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• Pope, E.C. & McMichael, D.F. (1961) Land and freshwater invertebrates of the Sydney district. Australian Museum Magazine 13, 302–305. (Reprinted in The Natural History of Sydney, Australian Museum, Sydney, 1962, pp. 61– 64).
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• Rippingale, O.H. & McMichael, D.F. (1961) Queensland and Great Barrier Reef shells. Jacaranda Press, Brisbane.
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• Beechey, D.L. (2010) Sydney’s molluscs: from gentlemen to malacologists. In: Lunney, D., Hutchings, P. & Hochuli, D. (Eds), The natural history of Sydney. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Mosman, pp. 107–124.
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