﻿100 
  MARINE 
  MOLLUSCA 
  DESCRIBED 
  BY 
  P. 
  P. 
  CARPENTER 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  was 
  determined 
  by 
  Dall 
  as 
  tlie 
  young 
  of 
  Chione 
  undatclla 
  Sowerby 
  (1835, 
  

   p. 
  22). 
  

  

  The 
  type 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  (Natural 
  History) 
  {fide 
  G. 
  L. 
  Wilkins, 
  March 
  2 
  and 
  

   July 
  10, 
  1951, 
  personal 
  communication), 
  and 
  the 
  photograph 
  of 
  the 
  specimen 
  has 
  been 
  pro- 
  

   vided 
  by 
  the 
  officials 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  (Natural 
  History). 
  

   Additional 
  references 
  : 
  

  

  Venus 
  {Chione) 
  excavata 
  Carpenter, 
  1857, 
  Rept. 
  British 
  Ass. 
  Adv. 
  Sci. 
  1856, 
  p. 
  197 
  

   Venus 
  excavata 
  Cakpexter, 
  1860. 
  .Smith, 
  ^Iisc. 
  Coll., 
  vol. 
  2, 
  art. 
  6, 
  p. 
  2; 
  Grant 
  and 
  Gale, 
  

  

  1931, 
  p. 
  322 
  in 
  synonvmy 
  of 
  Chione 
  succinta 
  

   Chione 
  excavata 
  Carpenter, 
  1864b, 
  p. 
  527, 
  641; 
  Reprint, 
  1872, 
  p. 
  13, 
  127; 
  Cooper, 
  1867, 
  

  

  Geog. 
  Cat. 
  AIoll., 
  Gcol. 
  Sur. 
  California, 
  p. 
  7 
  

  

  Family 
  Petricolidae 
  

   Genus 
  Petricola 
  Lamarck, 
  1801 
  

  

  Petricnla 
  Lamarck, 
  1801, 
  Syst. 
  Animaux 
  sans 
  Vert., 
  p. 
  121 
  

  

  Type 
  species 
  bv 
  subsequent 
  designation, 
  Schmidt, 
  1818, 
  Conch. 
  Samm., 
  p. 
  55, 
  79; 
  Venus 
  

  

  lapicida 
  Chemnitz, 
  1788, 
  Conch. 
  Cab., 
  vol. 
  X, 
  p. 
  356, 
  tab. 
  172, 
  figs. 
  1664, 
  1665. 
  Recent. 
  

  

  Australia. 
  Sowerby 
  in 
  Reeve, 
  1874, 
  Conch. 
  Icon., 
  vol. 
  19, 
  Petricola, 
  pi. 
  HI, 
  fig. 
  24 
  

  

  Subgenus 
  Rupellaria 
  Fleuriau 
  de 
  Bellevue, 
  1802 
  

  

  Rupellaria 
  Fleuriau 
  de 
  Bellevue, 
  1802, 
  Jour. 
  Physique, 
  vol. 
  54, 
  p. 
  347 
  

  

  Type 
  species 
  by 
  subsequent 
  designation, 
  Dall, 
  1900, 
  Wagner 
  Free 
  Inst. 
  Sci., 
  Philadelphia, 
  

  

  Trans., 
  vol. 
  HI, 
  pt. 
  V, 
  p. 
  1056-1058; 
  Venus 
  lithophaga 
  Retzius, 
  1786, 
  Act. 
  Acad. 
  Turin, 
  

  

  vol. 
  3, 
  p. 
  11. 
  Recent. 
  England 
  to 
  Spain 
  and 
  Mediterranean. 
  Sowerby 
  in 
  Reeve, 
  1874, 
  Conch. 
  

  

  Icon., 
  vol. 
  19, 
  Petricola, 
  pi. 
  H, 
  figs. 
  11a, 
  lib; 
  Bucquoy, 
  Dautzenberg, 
  and 
  Dollfus, 
  

  

  1893, 
  Moll. 
  Marins 
  du 
  Roussillon, 
  t. 
  H, 
  pi. 
  67, 
  figs. 
  20-25 
  

  

  Petricola 
  (Rupellaria) 
  tellimyalis 
  (Carpenter) 
  

   (PI. 
  12, 
  figs. 
  1-5) 
  

  

  Psephis 
  tellimyalis 
  Carpenter, 
  1864b, 
  p. 
  641 
  ; 
  Reprint, 
  1872, 
  p. 
  127; 
  1865, 
  Jour, 
  de 
  Conchyl., 
  

   vol. 
  Xni, 
  ser. 
  3, 
  vol. 
  V, 
  p. 
  135; 
  Reprint, 
  1872, 
  p. 
  303; 
  Cooper, 
  1867, 
  Geog. 
  Cat. 
  Moll., 
  

   Geol. 
  Sur. 
  California, 
  p. 
  7; 
  Dall, 
  1900, 
  Nautilus, 
  vol. 
  13, 
  no. 
  9, 
  p. 
  100 
  young 
  Petricnla 
  

  

  Petricola 
  denticnlata 
  Sowerby, 
  Dall, 
  1900, 
  Nautilus, 
  vol. 
  13, 
  no. 
  11, 
  p. 
  121 
  in 
  part; 
  1903, 
  

   Wagner 
  Free 
  Inst. 
  Sci. 
  Philadelphia, 
  Trans., 
  vol. 
  HI, 
  pt. 
  V, 
  p. 
  1061 
  in 
  part; 
  1921, 
  p. 
  44 
  

   in 
  part; 
  Oldroyd. 
  1924b, 
  p. 
  163 
  in 
  part 
  probably: 
  Grant 
  and 
  Gale, 
  1931, 
  p. 
  356 
  in 
  part 
  

   changed 
  in 
  footnote, 
  section 
  Petricolaria. 
  Not 
  P. 
  dcnticulata 
  Sowerby, 
  1834, 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  

   London. 
  Proc. 
  p. 
  47; 
  1855, 
  Thes. 
  Conchyl., 
  vol. 
  II, 
  p. 
  773, 
  pi. 
  CLXVI, 
  figs. 
  6, 
  7 
  

  

  Psephis 
  {Petricola) 
  tcllim\alis 
  Carpenter, 
  Willett, 
  1931, 
  So. 
  California 
  Acad. 
  Sci., 
  Bull., 
  

   30. 
  no. 
  2, 
  p. 
  39, 
  pi. 
  17, 
  figs. 
  1,2 
  

  

  Petricola 
  tellimyalis 
  (Carpenter). 
  Grant 
  and 
  Gale, 
  1931, 
  p. 
  356, 
  footnotes; 
  Ptlsbry 
  and 
  

   Lowe, 
  1932, 
  Acad. 
  Nat. 
  Sri. 
  Philadelphia, 
  Proc., 
  vol. 
  LXXXIV 
  p. 
  97, 
  pi. 
  13, 
  figs. 
  12, 
  13 
  ; 
  

   Burch, 
  1948, 
  no. 
  83, 
  p. 
  9, 
  figs. 
  

  

  Petricola 
  (Rupellaria) 
  tellimyalis 
  (Carpenter), 
  Burch, 
  1944, 
  no. 
  42, 
  p. 
  19, 
  figs.; 
  1945, 
  no. 
  

   45, 
  p. 
  16 
  

  

  Rupellaria 
  tellimyalis 
  (Carpenter), 
  Abbott, 
  1954, 
  p. 
  420, 
  pi. 
  31 
  1 
  

  

  "Psephis 
  tellimyalis, 
  n.s. 
  Shape 
  of 
  Tellimya: 
  central 
  tooth 
  minute 
  ; 
  outside 
  teeth 
  long." 
  

   [Carpenter, 
  1864b, 
  p. 
  641] 
  

  

  "Ps. 
  t. 
  valde 
  transversa, 
  subquadrata, 
  tumidiore, 
  valde 
  inacquilaterali 
  ; 
  umbonibus 
  obtusis, 
  

   vix 
  prominentibus 
  ; 
  pallide 
  carneolutescente, 
  purpureo 
  (maxime 
  circa 
  margincm 
  dentesque) 
  

   tincta 
  ; 
  epidermidc 
  tenuissime 
  induta 
  ; 
  tota 
  superficie 
  crcberrime 
  concentrice 
  striata 
  ; 
  margini- 
  

   bus, 
  dorsali 
  et 
  ventrali 
  subparallelis, 
  antico 
  rectiore, 
  postico 
  rotundato 
  ; 
  lunula 
  inconspicua 
  : 
  

   intus, 
  dentibus 
  centralibus 
  minimis, 
  anticis 
  elongatis, 
  posticis 
  valde 
  elongatis: 
  sinu 
  pallii 
  vix 
  

   sinuato. 
  — 
  Long. 
  .09, 
  lat. 
  .07, 
  altit. 
  .04, 
  poll. 
  

  

  "Hab. 
  Californie 
  (sur 
  la 
  partie 
  dorsale 
  d'une 
  II 
  allot 
  ide, 
  Rozvell). 
  

  

  "Le 
  sous-genre 
  Psephis 
  se 
  compose 
  de 
  tres 
  — 
  petitcs 
  coquilles 
  veneriformes, 
  dont 
  I'animal 
  

   est 
  ovivipare, 
  comme 
  celui 
  des 
  Cyclas, 
  etc., 
  des 
  eaux 
  douces, 
  et 
  des 
  Bryophila 
  parmi 
  les 
  

   Lamcllibranches 
  marins. 
  La 
  charniere 
  porte 
  trois 
  dents 
  ; 
  quelquefois 
  elles 
  ressemblent 
  a 
  

   celles 
  des 
  Chione: 
  mais 
  ordinaircment 
  les 
  dents 
  antericures 
  et 
  posterieures 
  se 
  prolongent. 
  Le 
  

   Psephis 
  tellimyalis 
  se 
  trouve 
  sur 
  les 
  limites 
  extremes 
  du 
  groupe. 
  II 
  a 
  I'aspect 
  exterieur 
  d'un 
  

   Tellimya 
  bidentaUs 
  et 
  quelc|ue 
  chose 
  aussi 
  de 
  sa 
  charniere 
  a 
  cause 
  du 
  tres-grand 
  developpe- 
  

   ment 
  des 
  deux 
  dents 
  terminales 
  aux 
  depens 
  de 
  la 
  dent 
  centrale. 
  Je 
  n'en 
  ai 
  vu 
  qu'un 
  seul 
  

   echantillon, 
  qui 
  appartient 
  au 
  reverend 
  J. 
  Rowell, 
  pasteur 
  a 
  San 
  Francisco." 
  [Carpenter, 
  

   1865g, 
  p. 
  135] 
  

  

  