BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WOODS HOLE AND VICINITY. 



695 



Macoma tenta Say. [Chart 150.] 



Gould, 1870, p. 96 (Tellina tenta); Verrill and 

 Smith, 1873, p. 678, 429, etc. (Tellina tenta); 

 Ball, 1889, p. 60. 



Dartmouth Harbor, New Bedford Harbor. 

 Adams. "Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay 

 2 to 10 fathoms, mud, common;" Hadley Har- 

 bor. Verrill. Survey records, with one ex- 

 ception, confined to Buzzards Bay, where liv- 

 ing specimens were dredged at depths of 3 to 7 

 fathoms, on bottoms of mud or muddy sand. 



Fish Hawk stations: 7612 (few shells), 7613 (few 

 shells), 7617 (few shells), 7619 (few shells), 

 7620 (many shells), 7622 (few shells), 7623 (few 

 living and shells), 7624 (several shells and liv- 

 ing), 7629 (few living and shells), 7638 (few 

 shells), 7640 (few shells), 7641 (few shells), 

 7643 (several shells), 7645 (few shells), 7646 

 (many shells and living), 7647 (shells), 7649 

 (shells common), 7658, 7675 (i shell), 7727 

 (several shells). 



Phalarope stations: 88 (i shell), 92 (shells), 119 

 (several living and shells), 120 (living and 

 shells), 125 ( i living), 127 (living), 143 (several 

 shells), 159 (several shells), 160 (several living 

 and shells), 161 (several living), 162 (few liv- 

 ing), 164 (i), 165 (i shell), 166 (several shells). 



Macoma balthica (Linnaeus). 



Gould, 1870, p. 93 (Macoma fusca; not listed 

 for this region); Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 

 676, 359, etc. (Macoma fragilis and M. fusca.) 



Wareham River, shallow water at low tide. 

 Cole. Nonamesset Island, i shell. Osburn. 

 Tisbury Great Pond, perhaps common (sev- 

 eral living specimens collected by Mr. Ed- 

 wards). Not recorded among the shells taken 

 by the dredge. Common, according to Ver- 

 rill, on muddy shores, between tides. 



Verrill states that two varieties, fusca and fra- 

 gilis, are taken together, which, in this region, 

 grade insensibly into each other. 



? Macoma cakarea (Gmelin). 

 Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 677 (Macoma sabu- 



losa). 

 No definite local records, though this region is 



included within range of the species as stated. 



Family 



Siliqua costata (Gould). 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 675, 358, etc.; Dall, 

 1889, p. 70. 



Vineyard Sound, sandy shores and bottoms. 

 Verrill. One young specimen (shell or liv- 

 ing ?) recorded by the Survey from Fish Hawk 

 station 7685*, at mouth of Vineyard Sound, in 

 17 fathoms. 



Ensis directus Conrad. Razor clam, razor shell, 

 razor fish . [Ch art 151.] 



Gould, 1870, p. 40 (Sokn ensis); Verrill and 

 Smith, 1873, p. 674, 356, etc. (Ensatella 

 americana); Dall, 1889, p. 72 (Ensis americana); 

 Mead, 1898 (Solen ensis). 



Shells abundant throughout both Sound and 

 Bay, in 2 to 19 fathoms, on bottoms of every 

 kind; living specimens abundant in the Bay, 

 in 2 to 8 fathoms, chiefly on bottoms of muddy 

 sand and sandy mud, scarcely ever dredged in 

 the Sound. Survey. This species is also lit- 

 toral and adlittoral in its habitat, forming deep 

 burrows in the sand. Large living specimens 

 reported by Osburn in a sand flat near entrance 

 of Lagoon Pond ; probably common in all sim- 

 ilar localities. 



Fish Hawk stations: 7521 (2 shells), 7521 bis 

 (few fragments), 7225 bis (few shells), 7527 

 (several shells), 7528 (few shells), 7529 (i shell), 

 7531 (i shell), 7532 (few shells), 7532 bis (few 

 shells), 7533 (several shells), 7533 bis (several 

 shells), 7534 (i shell), 7534 bis (few shells), 

 7535 (few shells), 7536 (several shells'), 7536 

 bis (fragments), 7537 (many shells), 7538 

 (shells), 7538 bis (few shells), 7541 (few shells), 

 7543 (many shells), 7544 (few shells), 7545 

 (few shells), 7546 bis (many fragments), 7547 

 (few shells), 7547 bis (many shells), 7549 

 (many shells), 7549 bis (few shells), 7550 

 (shells), 7551 (few shells), 7551 bis (few shells), 

 7552 bis (i shell), 7553 bis (i shell), 7554 (few 

 shells), 7554 bis (few shells), 7556 bis (few 

 shells), 7558 (i shell), 7563 (few shells), 7563 

 bis (few fragments), 7565 bis (few fragments), 

 7566 (few shells), 7567 (i shell), 7568 (few 

 shells), 7569 bis (few fragments), 7570 (i shell), 

 7571 (i shell), 7572 (fewshells), 7574 (few shells), 

 7576 (i shell), 7577 (several shells), 7591 (i 

 shell), 7595 (* shell), 7598 (i shell), 7612 (shell 

 and fragments ), 7613 (several shells, i living), 

 7614 (fragments), 7615 (few, many young), 7616 

 (several fragments), 7619 (few shells), 7620 

 (shells abundant), 7621 (few shells), 7622 (few 

 shells), 7624 (few young and living) , 7625 (many 

 shells and living), 7626 (fewshells), 7627 (few), 



- 7629 (shells and small living), 7630 (few frag- 

 ments), 7631 (i fragment), 7632 (several shells), 

 7633 (many living and shells), 7634 (many liv- 

 ing), 7635 (shells and fragments), 7636 (fe\v frag- 

 ments) , 7637 ( i small living) , 7639 (several shells 

 and fragments), 7640 (few living and shells), 



7643 (few young living, fragments and shells), 



7644 (small living and many fragments), 764;; 

 (many shells and living), 7646 (many small liv- 

 ing and shells), 7647 (few shells, small living), 



