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1840. Venus japonica and V. striata Pfeiffer, Krit. Reg., p. 64. 



1841. Venus tristis and V. elegantina Delessert, Rec. Coq. Lam., pi. X, figs. \oa — c, pi. XI, 



figs. 3. la, b. 

 1843. Venus tristis Philippi, Abbild. Beschreib. Conch., I, pi. 40, Venus, pi. I, fig. 4. 

 1843. Venus Tristis, V. Vernuculosa, V. Japonica and V. Striata Hanley, Rec. Biv. Shells, 



p. 125, pi. XVI, fig. n; p. 127, pi. XIII, fig. 46; and p. 127. 

 1845. Venus striata Catlow & Reeve, Conch. Nomencl., p. 36. 



1849. Venus striata Philippi, Abbild. Beschreib. Conch., III, p. 49, Venus, pi. VIII, figs. 5, 6. 



1850. Venus Labuana Adams & Reeve, "Samarang" MolL, p. 79, pi. XXI, fig. 16. 



1853. Venus striata and V. Labuana Sowerby, Thés. Conch., III, p. 735, pi. CLXII, figs. 207, 

 213, 214. 



1853. Pullastra striata Morch, Cat. Yoldi, II, p. 22. 



1853. Cliione striata, C. Japonica, C. régulons, C. Philippii, C. elegantina, C. tristis and C. 

 vermiculosa Deshayes, Cat. Conch. Brit. Mns., I, Veneridae etc., pp. 145, 146, 148, 

 150, 159. 



1853. Chione regularis Deshayes, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 7. 



1856. Venus striata and V. aurisiaca Hanley in Wood, Ind. Test., p. 47, pi. VII, fig. 56, Sup- 

 plément, p. 204, pi. II, figs. I, 2. 



1856. Venus Caledonica Bernardi, Journ. Conchyliol., V, p. 82, pi. III, fig. 7. 



1857. Venus {Tapes, Amygdala) japonica and V. [T., A.) striata Romer, Krit. Untersuch., pp. 73, 74. 

 1857. Chione (Chamelaea) elegantina. C. {C.) japonica, C.{C.) Philippii and C. {C.) striata Adams, 



H. & A., Gen. Rec. MolL, II, p. 423. 

 1864. Venus [Tapes, Heniitapes) striata Rômer, Malakozool. Blàtt., XI, p. 86. 

 1864. Tapes Philippi, T. Japonica, T. tristis and T. striata Reeve, Conch. Icon., XIV, Tapes, 



pi. VIII, figs. 36, a, b; pi. IX, figs. 43, 46; figs. 44«, b; figs. 45^, b. 

 1869. Chemelaea philippi, C. striata, and C. tristis Frauenfeld, Verhandl. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 



XIX, p. 881. 

 1869. Venus striata Pfeiffer in Martini-Chemn., Conch. -Cab. (N. F.), XI (I) Veneraceae, p. 127, 



pi. V, figs. 12—14. 

 1872. Venus [Tapes- Hemitapes) tristis and V. [T.-H.) striata Rômer, Mon. Venus, II, p. 100, 



pi. XXXIV, fig. 2, 2a, b; p. loi, pi. XXXV, fig. i — \k. 

 1882. Chione [Chamelaea) chemnitzii, Dunker, Ind. Moll. Mar. Japon., p. 197. 

 1884. Tapes Japonica and T. vermiculata Grasset, Ind. Test. Viv., p. 269. 

 1884. Pullastra Chemnitzii Grasset, loc. cit., p. 270. 

 1890. Tapes [Hemitapes) striata and T. [H.) tristis Paetel, Cat. Conch. Samm., III, pp. 81, 82, 



1895. Chione striata Pilsbry, Cat. Mar. Moll, Japan, p. 128. 



1896. Tapes striatus Casto de Elera, Cat. Sist. Filip., p. 748. 



1898. Chione striata Mellvil & Sykes, Proc. Malacol. Soc. London, III, p. 47. 



1903. Tapes striatus and T. tristis Hidalgo, Obras Malacol., II, pp. 257, 260. 



1905. Tapes striatus and T. tristis Hidalgo, Cat. Filip., p. 334. 



1906. Tapes striata Ovvston, Japan. Loochooan Shells, p. 39. 



1909. Hemitapes striatus Lamy, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, XI, p. 469. 



1910. Paphia tristis Hedley, Austral. Ass. Adv. Sci., XII, p. 349. 



1928. Paphia striata and P. ^r/j-/?^ Faustino, Summary Philippine Mar. Freshw. Moll., pp. 81, 82. 



The synonymy of P. [P.] japonica given above is the resuit of a careful examination of ail 

 old collections in the British Muséum (Nat. Hist.), London and a thorough scrutiny of the literature. 



The "somewhat squarely triangular" to "obliquely subcordate", "cordate" and "triangularly 

 ovate", as the shells of the so-called species were described by Reeve are simply slight variations 

 of the Chemnitzian species Venus literata and V. striata and which were later christened 

 V. japonica and V. striata by Gmelin. The species, for which the earliest valid name is P . [P.] 

 japonica (Gmelin), is, in the adult stage, subcordate, subtrigonal, inequilateral, moderately tumid 

 and often drawn out into a beak posteriorly. The sculpture consists of more or less regular, 



