rnYTiA 37 



1852,) Carycliium minimum, Miillor : Forbes & Hanley, Brit. 

 July./ Moll, iv, p. 198, pi. cxxv, f. 6. 



1856. Carychiwn (Auricella) minimum, Miill. : Moquin-Tan- 



DON, Hist. Moll. France, ii, p. 413, pi. xxix, 

 f. 15-26. [Altered on p. 646 to Aunculina.] 



1857. Carychkim minimum, Miiller : Gray, Turton's Manual, 



new ed., p. 190, f. 45, pi. vii, f. 77. 



1862. Carycliium minimum, Miiller : Jeffreys, Brit. Conch., i, 



p. 300; V, pi. xviii, f. 4. 



1863. Carycliium minimum., Miiller : Reeve, I,. & F.-W. Moll. 



Brit. 1.9., p. 127, figs. 



[Germain (Moll. France, ii, p. 266) cites C. Rayi, Bourg. ; 



and C. sianicum., Caziot, as synonyms.] 

 First recorded as British in 1784, by Boys & Walker 



{Test, minut. rar., p. 14, pi. ii, f. 51). 

 British Distribution in Time : Pleistocene to Recent. 

 [The records from earlier strata are incorrect.] 



Genus : 2. PHYTIA, Gray. 



Etym. : — Probably an anagram of Pytliia, although Agassiz 

 derives it from ^wVtos (procreans) : there is no evidence as 

 assumed by Beck and subsequent authors that it was a 

 misspelling. 



Type : — Valuta denticulata, Montagu. 



(Voluta, Auricula, Carychium, Turbo, vctt. auctt.) 



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



p. 54. 

 1817. Auricella [pars] : Jurine, Helv. Alman., p. 34. 

 1819. Alexia: Leach, Moll. Brit. Synop. (proofs), p. 135. 

 1821. Phytia : Gray, Lond. Med. Repos., XV, ]). 231. [Cited 



as a good name in synonymy by H. & A. 



Adams and Jeffreys.] 

 1827. Jaminia [pars] Bruguiere : Brown, lUust. Conch. Brit., 



ed. 1, p. iv. {Non Risso, 1826. The name 



was not used by Bruguiere.] 



1839. Phitia, Gray [pars] : Sowerby, Conch. Mamial, p. 81. 



1840. Ovatella, Bivona : Gray, Turton's Manual, new ed., 



p. 225. [Non Bivona.] 

 1847. Alexia, Leach MSS. : Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., xv, 



p. 179. [Non Stephens, 1835 (Coleopt.).] 

 1900. Kochia, sect, of Alexia : Pallary, Jourh. de Conchyl., 



xlviii, p. 239. [Non Freeh, 1891.] 

 1906. Myosotella : Monterosato, Nat. Sicil., xviii, p. 126. 



[Founded for Auricula myosotis, Drap., its 



synonym, A. denticulata, being left under 



Alexia.] 

 1920. Nealexia : Wenz, Senckenbergiana, ii, p. 190. 



