[SMITHSO^^IAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS.] 



CHECK LIST 



SHELLS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



WEST COAST: 

 OEEGONIAN AND CALIFORNIAN PROVINCE. 



P. P. CARPENTER. 



This list is condensed from that presented in the " Report to the British 

 Association," 1856, pp. 298 et seq. Species are omitted which have 

 since been discovered to be synonyms, or which rest on doubtful authority 

 as occurring in this zoological province ; which is known to extend from 

 Puget Sound to San Diego. Stragglers from other districts are omitted; 

 as also the species peculiar to the peninsula of Lower California. 



The generic names alone are given of undescribed species in the Smith- 

 sonian collection, or of species not yet satisfactorily identified. 



PAI.WOBRAXCHIATA. 

 Discinidae. 



DiSciua Evansii, Dav. 

 Terebratulidae. 



"Waldheimia californica, Koch. 

 Terebratella caurina, Gld. 



4. Terebratella pulviuata, Gld. 



LAMELI.IBRAXCHIATA. 

 Plioladidae. 



5. Teredo 



6. Zirphaea ?criapata, Linn. 



7. Pholadidea ovoidea, Gld. 



8. Pholadidea penita, Conr. 



9. Parapholaa californica, Conr. 



Saxicavidae. 



10. Saxicava pholadis, Lam. 



Myldae. 



11. Panopaea generosa, Gld. 



12. Mya praecisa, Gld. 



13. Platyodon cancellata, Conr. 



14. Cryptomya californica, Conr. 



15. Tresus capax, Gld. 



16. Schizothoerus Nuttallii, Conr. 



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Corbulidae. 



Neaera 

 Sphaenia 



Anatinidae. 



Thracia curta, Conr, 

 Lyonsia californica, Conr. 

 Mytilimeria Nuttallii, Conr, 

 Periploma argentaria, Conr, 

 Pandora punctata, Conr, 

 Pandora 



Solcnidae. 

 Solen sicarius, Gld. 



Solccurtidae. 

 Machaera lucida, Conr. 

 Macheera patula, Port. 

 Solecurtua californianus, Conr. 

 Solecurtua subteres, Conr. 



Telliiiida;. 

 Sanguinolaria Nuttallii, Conr. 

 Sanguinolaria rubroradiata, C 

 Psammobia pacifica, Conr, 

 Tellina bodegensis, Hds. 

 Tellina 

 Tellina 



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