48 THE LINGULIDA OF THE QUEENSLAND COAST. 
both of which occur in Moreton Bay, but it is more likely 
to be L. murphiana. We suspect that his New Caledonian 
Lingula record should be referred to L. hians (see below). 
The species very rarely met with in Port Jackson and 
identified by Angas (1867, p. 935), Brazier (1879a, 1879b) 
and Whitelegge (1889, p. 294) as L. hians was considered by 
Hedley (1916, p. 694 ; 1917, p. 113) to be L. anatina (=L. 
rostrum), but re-examination has proved that the species 
is L. hians. The same author (1898, p. 369) regarded as 
belonging to L. anatina some specimens collected in 
British New Guinea but they belong to ZL. exusta. 
L. anatina has been described anatomically by Vogt 
(1845), Gratiolet (1860), King (1873), Haneock (1858), 
Davidson (1888), Blochmann (1900), and others; and 
referred to incidentally by Morse (1902) and Yatsu (1902). 
The habitat given by Davidson (1888, p. 207) includes 
the Indian Ocean ; Moluccas (between tide marks) ; off 
Yedo, Japan ; Philippines (where it is sometimes very 
common in sandy mud between tide marks) Timor and Fiji. 
Yatsu referred to its abundance in certain parts of Japan, 
as did also Morse. Reeve (1859) and Dall (1873, p. 203) 
mentioned only the Philippines and Moluccas, while Sowerby 
(p. 338) gave the latter locality and the Indian Ocean.* 
Semper (1862, 1864), Yatsu (1902) and Francois (1891) 
published an account of its habits in the Philippines, on the 
Japanese coast, and in the vicinity of Noumea, New: Cale- 
donia, respectively. There seems to be little difference in 
habits amongst the Lingulide, as far as known (Smith 
1878 for L. hians ; Morse 1870 for Glottidia pyramidata ; 
Morse, 1902, for G. pyramedata and L. lepidula). 
It is not unlikely that more than one species is included 
under the term L. anatina by the abovenamed authors. 
The type locality is the Philippines. fBlochmann, stated 
*The ‘‘ Indian Ocean ”’ is of little value as a record. We do not know 
of any definite locality (if we exclude Timor) in the Indian Ocean where 
Lingula has been found, though no doubt it occurs in suitable situations 
on those parts of the East Indies whose shores are washed by the Indian 
Ocean.’ 
+Zur. Systematik u. geogr. Verbreitung d. Brachiopoden. Z.f. 
wiss. Zool. 90, 1908 pp. 596-644—quoted by Thomson 1918, pp. 38-9. 
