﻿PELECYPODA 
  89 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  Recent. 
  Puget 
  Sound, 
  Washington 
  (type) 
  ; 
  Shumagin 
  Islands, 
  Alaska, 
  to 
  

   San 
  Diego, 
  California 
  (Dall) 
  ; 
  to 
  Scammons 
  Lagoon, 
  Lower 
  California 
  (Jordan, 
  1926). 
  

   Pleistocene. 
  California 
  (Grant 
  and 
  Gale), 
  Mexico 
  (Jordan 
  1926). 
  Pliocene 
  (Woodring 
  and 
  

   Bramlette 
  1950) 
  

  

  Genus 
  Pristes 
  Carpenter, 
  1864 
  [1866] 
  

  

  (Pristiphora 
  Carpenter, 
  1866a 
  not 
  Latreille, 
  1810; 
  Serridens, 
  Dall, 
  1899. 
  For 
  references 
  see 
  

   Neave 
  1939^0.) 
  

  

  Pristes 
  Carpenter, 
  1864b, 
  Aug., 
  p. 
  611, 
  643; 
  Reprint, 
  1872, 
  p. 
  97, 
  129. 
  Pristiphora 
  Carpen- 
  

   ter, 
  1866a, 
  p. 
  210 
  substitute 
  for 
  Pristes 
  Carpenter, 
  1864b 
  not 
  Pristis 
  Linck, 
  1790 
  (Pis- 
  

   ces). 
  Serridens 
  Dall, 
  1899, 
  U. 
  S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus., 
  Proc, 
  vol. 
  21, 
  p. 
  880 
  substitute 
  for 
  Pristi- 
  

   phora 
  Carpenter, 
  1866a, 
  not 
  of 
  Latreille, 
  1810 
  (Hymenoptera) 
  for 
  reference 
  see 
  Neave 
  

   (1939-40). 
  

  

  Type 
  species 
  by 
  monotypy 
  Pristes 
  oblongus 
  Carpenter, 
  1864b, 
  p. 
  611, 
  643; 
  Reprint, 
  1872, 
  

   p. 
  97, 
  129 
  nomen 
  nudum, 
  validated 
  Carpenter, 
  1866a, 
  p. 
  210. 
  Recent. 
  Monterey, 
  California, 
  

   to 
  San 
  Hipolito 
  Point, 
  Lower 
  California. 
  (PI. 
  9, 
  fig. 
  11-13). 
  

  

  Prior 
  to 
  the 
  ruling 
  of 
  International 
  Zoological 
  Com., 
  Copenhagen, 
  1953 
  (see 
  Hemming, 
  

   1953, 
  p. 
  78, 
  Art. 
  34) 
  Pristes 
  Carpenter 
  was 
  considered 
  preoccupied 
  by 
  Pristis 
  Linck, 
  1790 
  

   (for 
  reference 
  see 
  Neave, 
  1939-1940). 
  Dall's 
  Serrideiis, 
  a 
  substitute 
  name 
  for 
  Carpenter's 
  

   substitute 
  preoccupied 
  name 
  of 
  Pristiphora 
  Carpenter, 
  has 
  been 
  used 
  for 
  Pristes 
  oblongus 
  

   Carpenter. 
  

  

  Reinstating 
  Pristes 
  under 
  the 
  new 
  ruling 
  does 
  not 
  clear 
  all 
  technicalities 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  status 
  

   of 
  the 
  name. 
  See 
  under 
  Pristes 
  oblongus 
  for 
  original 
  indication 
  of 
  the 
  genus. 
  The 
  type 
  species 
  

   is 
  clearly 
  stated. 
  However, 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  the 
  presenting 
  of 
  the 
  new 
  generic 
  name 
  the 
  type 
  

   species 
  P. 
  oblongus 
  was 
  a 
  nomen 
  nudum. 
  The 
  writer 
  does 
  not 
  regard 
  the 
  second 
  statement 
  

   (1864b, 
  p. 
  643) 
  adequate 
  to 
  describe 
  the 
  species 
  (see 
  Vokes, 
  1956, 
  p. 
  768). 
  In 
  1866a, 
  the 
  type 
  

   species 
  was 
  described 
  in 
  detail 
  as 
  Pristiphora 
  oblonga 
  by 
  Carpenter 
  who 
  gave 
  the 
  generic 
  

   name 
  as 
  a 
  substitute 
  for 
  Pristes. 
  Because 
  the 
  problem 
  does 
  not 
  involve 
  generic 
  names 
  other 
  

   than 
  substitutes 
  for 
  the 
  same 
  name, 
  and 
  because 
  the 
  type 
  species 
  was 
  indicated 
  as 
  the 
  same 
  

   in 
  each 
  case 
  it 
  seems 
  best 
  to 
  maintain 
  Pristes 
  of 
  either 
  1864 
  or 
  1866. 
  

  

  Pristes 
  oblongus 
  Carpenter 
  

  

  (PI. 
  9, 
  figs. 
  11-13) 
  

  

  Pristes 
  oblongus 
  Carpenter, 
  1864b, 
  Aug., 
  p. 
  611, 
  643; 
  Reprint, 
  1872, 
  p. 
  97, 
  129 
  

  

  Pristiphora 
  oblonga 
  Carpenter, 
  1866, 
  Feb., 
  California 
  Acad. 
  Sci., 
  Proc, 
  vol. 
  Ill, 
  p. 
  210; 
  

  

  Cooper, 
  1867, 
  Geog. 
  Cat. 
  Moll., 
  Geol. 
  Sur. 
  California, 
  p. 
  10 
  

   Serridens 
  oblonga 
  (Carpenter), 
  Dall, 
  1899, 
  U. 
  S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus., 
  Proc, 
  vol. 
  21, 
  no. 
  1177, 
  p. 
  

  

  880; 
  Kelsey, 
  1902, 
  Nautilus, 
  vol. 
  15, 
  p. 
  144; 
  Dall, 
  1921, 
  p. 
  Z7 
  ; 
  Oldroyd, 
  1924, 
  p. 
  135, 
  

  

  pi. 
  54, 
  figs. 
  5, 
  6, 
  7, 
  8; 
  Keen, 
  1937, 
  p. 
  25; 
  Burch, 
  1944, 
  no. 
  40, 
  p. 
  16; 
  1945, 
  no. 
  45, 
  p. 
  13 
  

  

  "Pristes 
  oblongus, 
  n.g., 
  n.s. 
  S. 
  Diego." 
  [Carpenter, 
  1864b, 
  p. 
  611] 
  

  

  "Pristes 
  oblongus, 
  n.g., 
  n.s. 
  Like 
  Telliinxa, 
  with 
  long 
  marginal 
  teeth, 
  serrated 
  near 
  hinge." 
  

   [Carpenter, 
  1864b, 
  p. 
  643] 
  

  

  Oldroyd 
  included 
  in 
  her 
  monograpli 
  a 
  copy 
  of 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  1866. 
  The 
  following 
  

   line 
  should 
  be 
  added 
  to 
  complete 
  that 
  copy 
  : 
  

  

  "Hah. 
  San 
  Diego; 
  1 
  worn 
  valve 
  among 
  shell 
  washings. 
  Cooper." 
  [Carpenter, 
  1866a, 
  p. 
  

   210] 
  

  

  A 
  specimen 
  in 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum 
  (no. 
  15592) 
  on 
  the 
  original 
  Carpenter 
  glass 
  

   mount 
  has 
  a 
  Carpenter 
  label 
  in 
  white 
  ink, 
  "Type 
  S. 
  Pedro. 
  Cooper." 
  This 
  does 
  not 
  coincide 
  

   with 
  the 
  original 
  notes 
  of 
  Carpenter 
  which 
  gave 
  the 
  locality 
  as 
  San 
  Diego 
  only. 
  Carpenter 
  

   listed 
  the 
  species 
  from 
  "D" 
  (1864b, 
  p. 
  643) 
  which 
  stood 
  for 
  the 
  "region 
  between 
  San 
  Diego 
  

   and 
  San 
  Pedro." 
  This 
  interpretation 
  may 
  account 
  for 
  the 
  interchange 
  of 
  places 
  in 
  the 
  local- 
  

   ity 
  names. 
  

  

  Another 
  specimen 
  marked 
  "type 
  S. 
  Diego 
  Hemphill" 
  in 
  Carpenter's 
  writing 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  

   Redpath 
  Museum 
  (no. 
  15372). 
  The 
  locality 
  is 
  right 
  for 
  the 
  type 
  locality, 
  but 
  the 
  collector 
  is 
  

   wrong. 
  Hemphill 
  collections 
  were 
  made 
  after 
  Cooper. 
  The 
  specimen 
  is 
  the 
  same 
  valve 
  and 
  

   same 
  dimensions 
  as 
  the 
  specimen 
  in 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum. 
  Neither 
  specimen 
  qualifies 
  

  

  