No. 2314. 



LIST OF RECENT BRACHIOPODA—DALL. 



269 



Cat. No. 



Locality. 



Collector. 



Number 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



32922 



111038 



133921 



61804 



36036 



53852 



145968 



173636 



North Carolina 



Fort Macon, North Carolina. 



North Carolina 



West Coast Florida 



Cedar Keys, Florida 



Marco, Florida, 1. w. to 3 fms . 



Tampa Bay, Florida 



Tampa Bay, Florida 



Stimpson 



Doctor Yarrow. 



F. B. Meek. 

 Hemphill . . 

 Hemphill . . 



Ball 



Dall 



10 



4 

 3 

 10 

 3 

 2 

 3 

 2 



For some time I suspected Reeve's shell to be identical with the 

 North American species, but no subsequent collector has found the 

 shell at Martinique, and none of the numerous specimens of G. 

 pyramidata I have seen have the relative width of Reeve's figure or 

 any touch of the green color he reports. I do not find that Cuming 

 himself ever visited Martinique, and am now disposed to think his 

 species was not really American. Cuming's localities, except for 

 specimens of his own collecting, are notoriously unreliable. 



Glottidia pyramidata is a small narrow whitish or horny shell, in 

 most cases without calcareous matter enough to dry in normal shape. 

 It has rarely a few brownish specks upon it but never shows any green- 

 ish color. Brooks, Morse, and Doctor Beyer have exhaustively 

 described its anatomy and characteristics. As in most cases the 

 southern specimens are larger and more solid than those from northern 

 stations. It is believed to live not much over a year. It was found 

 by Henderson at a depth of nearly two feet in the sand among roots 

 of sea grasses. 



Order NEOTREMATA. 

 Family CRANIIDAE. 



Genus CRANIA Retzius. 



Crania Retzius, Schrift. Berl. Ges. Naturf. freunde, vol. 2, p. 72, 1781, type, C. 



craniolaris Linnaeus, fossil. 

 Crania Dall, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 3, No. 1, p. 27, 1871; Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Phila. for 1873, p. 197. 



CRANU ANOMALA Mttller. 



Patella anomala MtJLLER, Prodr. Zool. Dan., p. 237, 1776. — Gmehn, Syst. Nat., 



vol. 2, p. 3721, 1792. 

 Orbicula norvegica Lamarck, Systfeme, p. 140, 1801. 

 Crania anomala Sowerby, Conch. Man., ed. 2, p. 125, fig. 197a, 1842. — LovtN, 



Index Moll. Scand., p. 29, 1846.— Dall, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 3, No. 1, 



p. 33, 1871 (full synonymy). — Davidson, Mon. Rec. Brach., pt. 3, p. 183, 



pi. 27, figs. 1-96, 1888. 



Type locality. — Norway. Miiller. 



