Check Lists Of The Shells Of North America (Paperback)

The following lists of the described specics of Sorth Americnn shells have bcen preparcd nt thc rcquert of this Institution, by sevcral nccom plishcd conchologists, for the purpose of IabclIing thc specimens in the Smithsouinn colIection. Applications having been made for copics of the lists, it has bmn though that their publication rould be generally useful, in facilitating the pre paratiou of catalogues, the labelling of collections, conducting oxcbanges, checking off faunas of particular rcgionr, etc. The series of lists is complete with the exception of that of the mari ie fauna of the Test Indin Province, including the shores of Florida, the Gulf coast, the west Indics, etc. On account of the groat extent of this pro vince, and the uncertainty in relation to many of its species, together i t h their irnperfcct representation in American conchalogical collections, it has been thought cxfldicnt to omit for the prcsc i a t list of its shells. As soon as such n list can be properlj prepared, it will be added to the series. In accordance with the views of s majority of the compilers of tbc lists, the authority given for each name refcrs to the origirlal describer of thc species, and not to the one j ho first published the name, both gencric and . spccific, as here printed. It will be readily understood that the Smithsonian Institution cannot vouch for the accuracy of the names of the lists or for their carn ilctcness, and that all responsibility in reference to thcsc 11oints rests with the several authors. JOSEPH IIESKT, Secretary S. 1. SYITHSON I N A S N T ITUTION, May, 1860. TABLE OF C O N T E N T S . No. 1. West Coast-Oregoniau and Cdifornian Province. By P. P. CABPENTEX. No. 2. WostCoast--Mexican and Psnamic Ymvince. By P. P. C U P S T E R . No. 3. East Coast-Arctic Eeas to Georgia. By W. STIJIPWX. No. 4. East Coast-Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. Xot yet published. KO. 6. Terrestrial Gastcropoda. Up. W. G. B XXEY. lio. 6. lluviatile Gasteropdz. Rp W. G. Brsn r. No. 7. Cyclades. By TEVPLXP BIYE. No. 8. Unionidie. By ISAAG LEA. CHECTC L I S T OP TnE SHELLS O F NORTII ARIEEICA. T E S T COAST T rrs list is condensed from that presented in the Report, to the Rritish Associatian, 1856, pp. 29s el seq. Species ore omitted which hwe since bccn discovered to be synonyms, or which rest on doubtful authority as occurring in this eoologicai provincc which is Bnom to extend from Pugel Sound to San Diego. Stragglers from other districts are omitted as also the species pecufinr to the peninsula of Lower CnIifornia, . The generic names alone arc giren of tandescribed species in the Smitb sonian collection, or of species nut yet satisfactorily identified ld3 LIOBRdSCEIIdTd. Diuci rld. I. Disciaa Evansii, Unv. Terebratulidae. 2. Waldheimia californica, Koch. 3. Terebratella caurina, Girt. 4. Terebratella pulvinata, Cld. LAMEILT. IRRdlbC1IIdTd. Inholadirlx. 5. Teredo 6. Zirphsea crispata, Lino. 7. Pholadidea ovoidea, Gld. E. Pholadidea penita, Conr. 9, Parapholas californica. Conr. S xicat ldz. 10. Saxicava pholadis, Lam. RIgidz. II, Panop a generosa, GEd, 12. Mya prreciea, Old. 13. Platyodon cancellata, Conr. 14. Cryptomya californica, Conr. 15. Tresus capax, Gld. 16. Schizothoerus Nuttallii, Cotrr. Corbnlidx. 17. N e r a 18. Sphenia Af ntinidx. 19. Thrada curta, Conr. 20. Eyonsia califoxnica. Conr. 21. Mytilimeria NuttaIlii, Conr. 22. Periploma argentaria, Conr. 23. Pandorapunctata, Conr. 24. Pandora Solenidae. 25. 6oIen sicariue, Cltl. Solecurt irl. 26. Machsera lucida, Conr. 27. Machara patula, Port. 28. Solecnrtua californianus, Cow. 29...