58 THE LINGULIDZ OF THE QUEENSLAND COAST. 
two or three inches deep. They were always in a vertical 
position, with the beak downwards. The fleshy or gelatin- 
ous pedicle which passed from between the beaks was five 
or six times as long as the shell and passed down into the 
mud, ending in a thickened knob. These pedicles did not 
appear to be attached to anything. On pulling at the 
shell, a slight resistance was felt, but not more than would 
be caused by the knob being drawn through the narrower 
hole in which the pedicle lies.’””’ This description does not 
allow one to identify the animal but the species was probably 
either L. hians or L. exusta. The very long peduncle 
suggests the former, since this organ is short in the latter. 
Lingula murphiana King. 
(Text-figure 8 ; Plate 2, figs. 5 and 6). 
- Syns: JL. anatina Hancock 1858. 
L. anatina Dall 1871 (in part). 
L. anatina Brazier 1879a—Moreton Bay. 
L. anatina Martens 1889—Peel I., Moreton 
Bay. — 
L. anatina Hedley 1909 (in part), Moreton 
Bay. 
L. rostrum Hedley 1916—Moreton Bay. 
L. rostrum Thomson 1918—Moreton Bay. 
L. murphiana of authors. 
The species was described by Reeve (1859, pl. 1, fig. 3) 
who retained the MS. name given to it by Capt. King, one 
of the early explorers of Australia. Some of Reeve’s in- 
formation was published by Chenu (fig. 1199, p. 233). 
Davidson gave a very good account and several excellent 
figures of the shell (1888, p. 215-6, pl. 29, fig. 11; pl. 30, 
figs. 1-3), at the same time expressing the belief that Hancock 
(1858) had described the anatomy of this species under the’ 
name of L. anatina and that his L. affinis was probably 
L. anatina Lam. Hancock’s specimen of the former was 
examined by Davidson who stated (p. 215) that its size and 
colour agreed with those of L. murphiana, but that the 
identity could not be settled until the animal of ZL. mur- 
phiana had been again examined. 
