I do not know of a standard shell club publication that would be suitable
for publishing new species, although I think Veliger grew out of something
like that.  It would have been clearer if I had said that it is highly
unlikely that a shell club publication would be suitable.  A well-funded
and ambitious club might be able to produce something suitable, so I did
not feel as though the possibility could be ruled out.
However, submitting to an existing journal is much simpler and helps avoid
the risk of oblivion that is raised by publishing on one's own.  It also is
less likely to make people suspect that you are trying to avoid peer
review.


Dr. David Campbell
"Old Seashells"
Department of Geological Sciences
CB 3315 Mitchell Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill NC 27599-3315 USA
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"He had discovered an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus"-E. A. Poe, The
Gold Bug