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Family Saxicavidae. 



Genus Saxicava Fleurian de Bellevue. 



1802. Saxicava Fleurian de Bellevue, Bull. Soc. Philomat. Paris, N° 62, pp. 5, 10. 



18 18. Saxicava Lamarck, Anim. sans Vertèb., V, p. 501. 



1856. Saxicava Adams, H. & A., Gen. Rec. Moll., II, p. 348. 



1887. Saxicava Sowerby in Reeve, Conch. Icon., XX, Saxicava, pi. I, (explanation). 



1887. Saxicava Fischer, P., Man. Conchyliol., p. 11 26. 



1898. Saxicava Dali, Trans. Wagner Free Inst. Sci. Philadelphia, III, p. 833. 



1925. Saxicava Lamy, Journ. Conchyliol., LXVIII, p. 218. 



For a detailed account of the genus Saxicava référence may be made to Lamy's récent 

 revision noted above. The génotype is Saxicava arctica (Linn.). 



I. Saxicava australis (Lamarck). 



18 18. Corbula Australis Lamarck, Anim. sans Vertèb., V, p. 495. 



18 18. Saxicava Ajistralis, S. venerif or mis and Petricola linguatnla Lamarck, loc. cit., pp. 502, 505. 



1825. Corbula Australis Blainville, Man. MalacoL, p. 561, pi. LXXVIII, fig. 3. 



1825. Saxicava Australis Blainville, loc. cit., p. 572, pi. LXXX bis, fig. 4. 



1835. Corbula Australis, Saxicava Australis, S. veneriforniis and Petricola linguatula Deshayes 



in Lamarck, Anim. sans Vertèb., VI, pp. 138, 153, 160. 



1843. Hiatella minuta Gray in Diffenbach, Travels New Zealand, p. 252. 



1843. Saxicava Australis Hanley, Rec. Biv. Shells, p. 51. 



1853. Petricola linguatula Deshayes, Cat. Conch. Brit. Mus., I, Veneridae etc., p. 212. 



1856. Saxicava Australis Adams, H. & A., Gen. Rec. Moll., II, p. 349. 



1865. Saxicava Australis Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 643. 



1867. Saxicava Australis Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 913. 



1868. Saxicava ve'neriformis Tryon, Amer. Journ. Conch., IV, p. 60. 



1875. Saxicava Australis Sowerby in Reeve, Conch. Icon., XX, Saxicava, pi. II, fig. %a- — d. 



1884. Saxicava australis' Hutton, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, IX, p. 513. 



1884. Saxicava australis Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S, Wales, IX, p. 799. 



1887. Saxicava australis Sowerby, Thés. Conch., V, p. 132, pi. CCCCLXXI, fig. 2. 



1887. Saxicava arctica Tate (non Linn.), Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Australia, IX, p. 82. 



1895. Saxicava australis Clessin, in Martini-Chemn. Conch.-Cah. \^.¥ .), 'Kl {4), Gastrochaenidae, 



p. 40, pi. VI. figs. I — 4. 

 1895. Saxicava australis} and 5. australis var. arctica Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 



(2) IX, p. 179. 

 1913 — 15. Saxicava arctica Suier (non Linn.), Man. New Zealand Moll., p. 1012, pi. LV, figs. 6, 6^. 



1916. Saxicava australis Hedley, Journ. Roy. Soc. W. Australia, I, p. 20. 



1917. Saxicava arctica var. australis Odhner, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl., LU, W 16, p. 34. 



1918. Saxicava australis Hedley, Journ. Proc. Roy. Soc. N. S. Wales, LI, p. M. 31. 



1921. Saxicava australis, S. veneriforjuis and Petricola Ivigiuxtula Lamy, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. 



Paris, XXVII, pp. 363—364, 436. 

 1925. Saxicava australis Lamy, Journ. Conchyliol., LXVIII, p. 239. 

 1930. Saxicava arctica Thiele (nec Linn.), Fauna Siadwest. Austral., V, p. 595. 



Smith ') combined ail the species of the genus Saxicava under the name S. arctica (Linn.), 

 but this drastic treatment, as Lamy has shown, is not justified. A number of species of the genus 

 can be distinguished, and in any case a species of sedentary molluscs like S. ai^ctica can hardly 

 be expected to hâve a world-wide distribution. 



i) Smith, E. A. — Rept. Voy. "Alert", p. 93 (1884) and "Challenger" Lamellibranchia., p. 78 (1885). 



