339 

 NOTE ON TELLINA SPLENDIDA of Anton. 



By EDGAR A. SMITH, I.S.O. 



(Read before the Society, March loth, 1915). 



On page 276 of tliis volume Messrs. Tomlin and Shackleford have 

 proposed a new name for the Tellina senegalensis of Hanley as that 

 specific name had previously been employed by Gmelin. 



This change of name, however, appears to be unnecessary since 

 Anton described the same species as Tellina splendida. 



Hanley evidently mistook Anton's species for another form 

 occurring at the Philippine Islands, and iiis identification was 

 followed by Romer, Berlin and others, who possibly did not consult 

 the original description. 



The synonymy of the two species will run as follows : — 

 Strigilla splendida (Anton). 

 1839. Tellina splendida Anton, Verzeichniss Conchyl., p. 5. 

 1844. . ,, senegaletisis Hanley, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1844, p. 68. 



1846. ,, ,, id., 'J'hesaurns Conch., vol. i., p. 259, 



pi. Ivi., fig. 17. 

 1866. ,, ,, Sowerby, Conch. Icon., vol. xvii., pi. ix., 



fig- 39- 

 1872. ,, (^Strigilla) se/iegaleiisis Romer, Conch. Cab., p. 194, 



pi. xxxvii,, figs. 17-19. 

 1915. Strigilla polyaulax Tomlin & Shackleford, Jonrii. of Conch., 



vol. xiv., p. 276. 



Strigilla tomlini nom. nov. 

 1846. Tellina splendida Hanley [iiec Anton), Thesaurus Conch., 



vol. i., p. 259, pi. Ivi., fig. 39. 

 1866. ,, ,, Sowerby, Conch. Icon., vol. xvii., pi. ix., 



fig- 3S. 

 1872. „ {Strigilla) splendida Romer, Conch. Cab., p. 192, 



pi. xxxvii., figs. 13-16. 



In my opinion Hanley was not successful in his identification of 

 Anton's Tellina splendida, the original description of which may be 

 translated thus: — Obliquely ovate, hinder side somewhat prolonged, 

 little ventricose; middle of the valves obliquely striated, behind and 

 in front transversely striated ; horn-grey into yellow, epidermis red- 

 brown, very glossy, within greyish-white. Length 9'", breadth 10'". 



The last part of this description — "horn-grey, etc." — applies 

 perfectly to the T. splendida of Anton, but is not descriptive of the 



