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TERTIARY FAUNA OF FLORIDA 



Pliocene of the Caloosahatchie, Shell Creek, and Alligator Creek, south 

 Florida, Willcox and Burns ; Pleistocene of Barbadoes, Damon ; of the Florida 

 Keys, Dall, and of various localities in the West Indian region ; recent on the 

 coast of Florida and in the West Indies in shallow water. 



This well-known shell, the " Apricot" of the eighteenth century collectors, 

 occurs abundantly in the Floridian Pliocene, exactly agreeing with recent 

 specimens. It is not uncommonly referred to the genus Loripes under a mis- 

 taken idea of what Loripes really is, and it is the edentula of Chemnitz, a name 

 very generally adopted, but not the edentula of Linne, many years earlier. 

 



Lucina Philippiana Reeve. 



Lucina Philippiana Reeve, Conch. Icon., Lucina, pi. v., figs 23 a-b, 1850. 

 Lucina edentula Philippi, Abb. und Beschr. neue Conchyl., ii., p. 205, pi. i., fig. i, 1847; 



not of Linne or Reeve. 

 Lucina Schrammi Crosse, Journ. de Conchyl., xxiv., p. 166, 1876 ; ibid., xxvi., p. 328, 



pi. x., fig. 6, 1878. 



Pleistocene of Barbados, Damon; recent in trie West Indies and the Gulf 

 of Mexico. 



This large, chalky-white species bears to the L. chrysostoma much such 

 a relation as L. corpulenta Dall bears to L. janus Dall in the Chipolan beds. 



Genus LORIPES Cuvier. 

 >Loripes + Tellina Poli, Test. Utr. Sicil., i., p. 31, 1791; ii., p. 47, 1795- Type Tellina 



lactea Poli. 



~>Loripoderma Poli, ii., p. 253, 1795; same type. 

 <Loripes Oken, Lehrb. d. Naturg., iii., pp. 231, 848, 1815. 

 = Loripes Cuvier, Regne Anim., ii., p. 482, 1817, sole ex. Tellina lactea Poli; Bowdich, 



Elem. Conch., ii., p. 9, 1822; Gray, List Brit. An., p. 100, 1851; H. and A. Adams, 



Gen. Rec. Moll., ii., p. 468, 1857. . 



Not Loripes Schweigger, Handb. Naturg., p. 705, 1820, = Omala Schumacher, 1817. 

 Lucina (sp.) Lamarck, An. s. Vert., v., p. 543, 1818. 

 Thyatira Gray (as of Leach), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xx., p. 272, 1847 (not of Hubner), 



Tellina leucoma Turton. 

 Amphidesma sp. Lamarck, op. cit., 1818. 



Ligula Menke, Syn. Meth. Moll., p. 112, 1830; not of Montagu, 1808. 

 Loripes (sp.) Menke, op. cit., 1830. 

 Lucinida Orbigny, Voy. Am. Mer., p. 588, 1846. Type L. cryptella Orbigny, op. cit., 



plate Ixxxiv., figs. 18-20 -f L. brasiliana Orbigny, op. cit., in legend to plate ; + L. 



brasiliensis Philippi, Zeitschr. Mai., 1848, p. 150; not Diplodonta brasiliensis Mittre, 



Journ. de Conchyl., i., p. 242, 1850. 



