West Coast Nassariidae — Demond 
309 
Proc. 3: 155, 1851; Carpenter, Brit. Assoc. 
Adv. Sci., Rpt. for 1863: 662, 1864; Tryon, 
Man. Conch. IV, 4: 56, pi. 17, figs. 320- 
323, 1882; Keep, West Coast Shells, p. 37, 
[non] fig. 18, 1893; Arnold, Calif. Acad. 
Sci., Mem. 3: 233, 1903. 
Nassa woodwardi Forbes, Zool. Soc. London, 
Proc. for 1850: 273, pL 11, fig. 3, 1850. 
Nassa gibbsii W. Cooper, U. S. Pacific Rail- 
road Rpts., Sup. to 1(3): 371, 1859. 
Alectrion mendicus Gould, Dali, U. S. Natl. 
Mus., Proc. 51: 576, 1917; Oldroyd, I. S., 
Wash. Univ., Puget Sound Biol. Sta., Pubs. 
4: 95, pi. 22, fig. 6, 1924; Jordan, South. 
Calif. Acad. Sci., Bui. 23: 149, 1924. 
Alectrion {Schizopyga) mendica Gould, Dali, U. 
S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 112: 102, 1921; Old- 
royd, I. S., Stanford Univ., Pubs., Univ. 
Ser. Geol. Sci. 2(1): 265, pi. 26, fig. 2, 
[non] figs. 6, 14, 1927. 
Alectrion cooperi var. woodwardi Forbes, Old- 
royd, I. S., U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 65(22): 
12, 1925. 
Alectrion mendica (Gould), Johnson and 
Snook, Seashore Animals of the Pacific 
Coast, p. 513, [non] fig. 531, 1927. 
Nassarius {Schizopyga) mendicus (Gould), 
Grant and Gale, San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 
, Mem. 1: 674, pi. 26, fig. 54 [immature], 
1931; Keep, West Coast Shells, p. 229, 
[non] fig. 219, 1935. 
Nassarius mendicus (Gould), Jordan, Stanford 
Univ., Dept. Geol. Contrib. 1(4): 114, 
1936; Smith and Gordon, Calif. Acad. Sci., 
Proc. IV, 26(8): 187, 1948. 
Nassa' mendica. Woodring, U. S. Geol. 
Survey, Prof. Paper 207: 73, 1946. 
TYPE SPECIMEN: Boston Society of Natural 
History (Oldroyd, 1927). 
TYPE locality: Nisqually, Port Discovery, 
Puget Sound (Oldroyd, 1927). According to 
Burch (1945), A. M. Keen states that, “The 
holotype label of N. mendicus at the National 
Museum gives the type locality as Straits of 
Fuca.” 
DESCRIPTION: Maximum length, 25 mm.; 
average length, about 14 mm.; shell elongate; 
spire elevated; 6 to 7 whorls; length of body 
whorl almost half the shell length; many fine, 
raised, spiral threads crossed by fewer, coarser, 
transverse ridges; definitely delimited white 
callus on inner lip, not spreading over body 
whorl; outer lip sharp, simple; line of about 
10 raised ribs within aperture, not reaching 
edge of lip; definite groove at base of body 
whorl; anterior canal broad, short, slightly 
reflected; posterior canal typically absent; 
shell color usually reddish brown or light 
ashen. 
RECENT GEOGRAPHIC RANGE: Forrester Is- 
land, Alaska, to Magdalena Bay, Lower Cali- 
fornia. 
HABITAT: 5 to 40 fathoms, in sand. 
Nassarius mendicus cooperi ( Forbes ) 
PL I, Fig. 1 
Nassa cooperi Forbes, Zool. Soc. London, Proc. 
for 1850: 273, pi. 11, fig. 4, 1850; Carpen- 
ter, Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Rpt. for 1863: 
662, 1864; Keep, West Coast Shells, p. 37, 
figs. 18, 1893. 
Nassa mendica Gould var. cooperi Forbes, Dali, 
U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 19: 377, pi. 33, 
fig. 9, 1897; Arnold, Calif. Acad. Sci., Mem. 
3: 234, 1903; Berry, Nautilus 22: 38, 1908. 
Alectrion mendica cooperi Forbes, Chace, E. P., 
Nautilus 29(11): 130, 1916. 
Alectrion Forbes, Dali, U. S. Natl. Mus., 
Proc. 51: 576, 1917; Oldroyd, 1. S., Wash. 
Univ., Pubs., Puget Sound Biol. Sta. 4: 
96, 1924. 
Alectrion {Schizopyga) cooperi Forbes, Dali, U. 
S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 112: 102, 1921; Old- 
royd, 1. S., Stanford Univ., Pubs., Univ. 
Ser. Geol. Sci. 2(1): 265, pi. 26, fig. 8, 1927. 
Nassarius {Schizopyga) mendicus cooperi (Forbes), 
Grant and Gale, San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 
Mem. 1: 674, pi. 26, figs. 40, 50, 1931; 
Keep, West Coast Shells, p. 229, fig. 219, 
1935. 
Nassarius {Schizopyga) cooperi (Forbes), Vokes, 
Nautilus 50(2): 47, 1936. 
''Nassa" mendica cooperi, Woodring, U. S. 
