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CATALOGUE AND SYNONYMY OF THE FAMILY ASTAKTID.E. 

 BY GEORGE W. TRYON, JR. 



Family ASTARTID^E, H. & A. Adams. 

 Genera of Recent Mollnsca, ii. 483. 1857. 

 Genus ASTAETE, J. Sowerby. 

 Mineral Conch., t. 137. 1816. 



Crassina, Lamarck, Anim. s. Yert. v. 554. 1818. 



Tridonta, Schumacher, Essai d'un Nov. Syst. 146. 1817. 



Mactrina, Brown, Brit. Conch. 1827. 



Nicania, Leach, Jour. Phys. lxxxviii. 4G5. 1819. 



A. bipartita, Philippi, Enura, Moll, sicil i. 32, t. 3, f. 21. 1836. 



Mediterranean. 

 A. borealis, Chemnitz, Conch. Cab. vii. t. 39, f. 412. 1T84. 



Astarte arctica, Gray, App. Capt. Parry's Voyage. 1824. 

 Astarte cyprinoides, Duval, Rev. Zool. 278. 1841. 

 Astarte plana, Sowerby, Min. Conch, t. 179, f. 2. 

 Astarte compressa, Macgillivray, Moll. Aberd. 261. 1842. 

 Crassina corrugata, Brown, 111. Brit. Conch. 96, t. 40, f. 24. 

 Astarte lactea, Brod. & Sowerby, Zool. Jour. iv. 365. 1828. 

 Sowerby, Thes. Conch, ii. 781, t. 167, f. 21-23. 1855. 

 Astarte semisulcata, Leach, Ann. Philos. xiv. f. 204. 



Sowerby, Thes. Conch, ii. 781, 1. 167, f. 16. 1855. 

 Astarte lactea, Gould (not Brod.), Invert. Mass., 1st edit. 

 80, f. 47. 1841. 



Northern Seas. 

 A. castanea, Say, Jour. Philad. Acad. ii. 273. 1822. 



Sowerby, Thes. Conch, ii. 782, t. 167, f. 14, 15. 1855. 

 Astarte crassidens, Brod. et Sowb. Zool. Jour. iv. 1828. 

 Venus sulcata, Montagu (not Da Costa), Test. Brit. 131. 



1803. 



British America to New Jersey. 

 A. compressa, Montagu, Test. Brit. Suppl. 43, t. 26, f. 1. 1808. 

 Venus Montagui, Dillwyn, Des. Cat. 1817. 

 Astarte striata, Gray, App. Beechy's Voyage, t. 44, f. 9. 

 Astarte multicostata, Macgillivray, Moll. Aberd. 260. 1843. 

 Astarte globosa, M oiler, Index Moll. Gro'enl. 20. 1842. 



