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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



radula resembles that of PotamolitJiits in the important character of having 

 many minute cusps on the marginal teeth, more than double the number 

 of those on the admedian tooth. It differs from Potainolitlnts by having 

 a single basal cusp or denticle on each side of the central tooth, Potcuiio- 

 lithus having two or more. I have found the number of basal cusps so 

 variable in many genera that I do not attach much importance to this 

 character. Of all known genera, Petterdiana is, in my opinion, the most 

 closely related to Potamolithits. 



Marginal teeth with a small number of cusps characterize the subfamily 

 LitlioglypJiincc. The Austral genera Pofai)ioIif/iits and Petterdiana cannot 

 be included in this subfamily. They may for the present be placed in the 

 AmnicolhicB. 



LITTORIDINA Souleyet. 



Littoridiiia Souleyet, Voyage autour du Monde execute pendant les annees 

 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette La Bonite, Zoologie, II, p. 565 (1852). 

 Monotypic : type L. gandichandii Soul. 



'' Littoyinida Eydoux et Souleyet" Stimpson, Researches upon the Hydro- 

 biinse, etc., 1865, p. 43; Fischer, Manuel de Conchyliologie, 1885, 



P- 730. 

 Palitdestriua in part, d'Orbigny, 1839; Stimpson, 1865. 

 Heleobia Stimpson, Researches upon the Hydrobiinae, etc., 1865, p. 47. 



Monotypic : type P. cnlniinea. 

 Hydrobia and Pa/udi/ia of some authors. 



The shell is small, very narrowly rimate, acutely ovate, thin, smooth 

 or rarely striated spirally, of olive or pale corneous color ; whorls usually 



Fig. 7. 



Littoridina guadichandii, anterior part of the body, the pallial cavity opened and spread to the 

 left, a, anus ; Pett., penis. (After Souleyet.) 



