CAKYCIIIUM 35 



(Sub-class : Euthyneura.) 



Order: PULMONATA. 



(Sub-order : BASOMMA TOPIIURA .) 



Fain. : ELLOBIID^.i 



Genus : 1. CARYCHIUM, Muller. 



Etyiu. : — Gr. Kapv$, Doric for Kr/pvi, a herald ; because in 



ancient times they used a shell as a trumpet. 

 Monotype : — C. minimum, Miiller. 



1771. Carychium : Muller, Verm. Hist., ii, p. 125. 



1807. Carichium [pars] : Ferussac, Essai method. Conch., 



p. 36 (table). 

 1821. AuriceUa [pars] : Hartmann, Neue Alpina, i, p. 215. 



[Non Jurine 1817.] 

 1826. Saraphia : Klsso, Hist. Nat. Europ. Mcrid., iv, p. 83. 

 1856. Auriculina, subg. of Carychium : Moquin-Tandon, 



Hist. Moll. France, ii, p. 646. [Proposed in 



lieu of AuriceUa on p. 413.] 



1. fCarychium ovatura, Sandberger. 

 Etym. : — Lat. ovutus, egg-shaped. 



1880. Carychium, ovatum, Sandb. : Sandberger, Palaeontog., 

 xxvii (N.F. vii), p. 102, pi. xii, f. 12-12 h. 



First recorded as British in 1880 as above. 

 British Distribution in Time : Cromerian. 



2. Carychium minimum, Miiller. 

 Etym. : — Lat. minimus, smallest. 



1774.' Carychium minimum: Muller, Veryn. Hist., ii, p. 125. 

 1791. Helix carychium: Gmelin, in Linn. Syst. Nat., ed. 13, 



i, pt. 6, p. 3665. 

 1801. Auricula minima : Draparnaud, Tabl. Moll. France, 



p. 54. 

 1803. Turbo carychium, Muller : Montagu, Test. Brit., p. 339. 

 1805. Auricula minima : Draparnaud, Hist. Moll. France, 



p. 57, pi. iii, f. 18 & 19. 

 1807. Carichium minimum, Mtill. : Ferussac, Essai method. 



Conch., p. 54. 



' For discussion ou the generic uanics, -Sec Kennaed & Woodwajrd, 

 Proc. JIalac. Hoc. Land., xiii, 191U, p. 13(j. 



