82 Gati.iff and Garriel, Victnyian Marine Mnl/usca. [vo^'jcxxi 



ALTERATIONS IN THE NOMENCLATURE OF SOME 

 VICTORIAN MARINE MOLLUSCA. 



By J. H. Gatliff and C. J. Gabriel. 



(Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, i^th July, 1914) 



Some conlusion having arisen through the alteration, during 

 recent years, of the names of several of our Victorian shells, 

 we desire to submit the last accepted names and those previously 

 >ised, together with explanatory notes on the changes. 



Parviterebra harrisoni, T. -Woods. 



1877. — Mangelia harrisoni, T. -Woods. P.R.S. Vic, p. 56. 

 1900. — Raphitoma harrisoni, T. -Woods. Pritchard and Gatliff, 

 id., vol. xii., U.S., for 1899, p. 179. 



Ohs. — This species has caused much diversity of ojiinion 

 amongst authors as to its generic position. It has been 

 classed in the following genera : — Euryta, Mangelia, Daphnella, 

 Terebra, and Cithara ; but the difficulty has now been over- 

 come by the erection of the genus Parviterebra by Pilsbry in 

 1904 for the reception of it and other similar shells. 



Phasianella perdix. Wood. 



1828. — Phasianella perdix. Wood. Index Testaccologicus, 



Suppl., p. 48, pi. 6, f. 46. 

 1834. — Phasianella ventricosa, Quoy and Gaimard. Astrolabe, 



Zool., vol. iii., p. 237, pi. 59, f. 8, 9. 

 1902. — Phasianella ventricosa, Quoy and Gaimard. Pritchard 



and Gatliff, P.R.S. Vic, vol. xiv., n.s., p. 112. 



Ohs. — Wood's species appears to have been ignored by most 

 writers, but his figure above cited, although small, depicts our 

 species admirably ; we also have a large series of it from the 

 adjoining States, also Western Australia and Tasmania. 



Megatebennus javanicensis, Lamarck. 



1822. — Fissiirella javanicensis, Lamarck. Anim. S. Vert., 



vol. vi., part 2, p. 14. 

 1834. — Fissurella trapezina, Sowerby. P.Z.S. Lond., p. 126. 

 1841. — Fissurella javaniensis, Lamarck. Delessert, Recueil 



Coquilles, pi. 24, f. 8 (a) {b) (c). 

 1903. — Megatebennus trapezina, Sowerby. Pritchard and (iat- 



Hff, P.R.S. Vic, vol. XV., n.s., p. 182. 



Obs. — This is our commonest species of the key-hole limjicts. 

 The specimen figured by Delessert appears to be somewhat 

 deformed. 



Anapella triquetra, Hanlcy. 

 1843. — Mesodesma triquetra, Hanley. P.Z.S. Lond.. p. loi. 



