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The Chama lazarus shell also contained Lithoglyptes spinattis acro- 

 thoracicans. 



Kochlorine bihamata Noll, 1883, page 472 



Diagnosis: Kochlorine with no anterior conical processes; two 

 posterior hooks and spiny teeth on rim of mantle aperture; 5 mm in 

 size; dried specimens in Haliotis shell from Cape Town, South Africa. 



The validity of the species name Kocholorine bihamata is in doubt. 

 NoU (1883) gave a recognizable specific differentiation between the 

 new specimens found at Cape Town, South Africa, and his K. hamata 

 from Cadiz, Spain, yet he did not set it up as a definite species. He 

 stated, as translated from the German, "Should examination of 

 fresh material of Kochlorine from Cape Town demonstrate a new 

 species, one can well label it K. bihamata. Meanwhile it is safe to say 

 that the genus Kochlorine lives in the east Atlantic Ocean from Cadiz 

 to Cape Town, bores chambers in shells of Haliotis, and perhaps in 

 other shells also." 



I maintain that K. bihamata is a recognizable species, although I 

 have not seen it. Even though Noll proposed the name provisionally, 

 he designated a specific name which can be retained without causing 

 undue confusion. Hoek (1883), Weltner (1897), Stebbing (1910), and 

 Barnard (1924) have cited the species as more or less recognizable, 

 although it is probable that none of these writers saw a specimen of 

 this species. 



As there are no illustrations of K. bihamata, we must rely on NoU's 

 description. A very abundant species in Haliotis midae of South 

 Africa is Weltneria spinosa (q.v.) I would hope that Noll would have 

 noticed the five pairs of terminal cirri on this latter species, had he 

 seen it, and would not have confused it with Kochlorine, although I 

 cannot be too critical of him if he did get confused. 



Kochlorine floridana Wells and Tomlinson, 1966, page 27 



FlGTTRE 15 



Diagnosis: Kochlorine with one pair of short, conical spines and 

 rows of tack-shaped teeth on mantle aperture, and with lateral bar; 

 attachment process moderately developed. 



Distribution: From North and South Carolina, Georgia, 

 Florida, and Puerto Rico (see original description) . In addition it has 

 been found in the following places and hosts : 



Crassosiraea virginica, Santa Rosa Sound, Florida (near Pensacola), coll. P. A. 

 Butler; courtesy of Nelson R. Cooley. 



