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Mabille (1895) studied a small collection, 
Hedley (1899) included New Hebridean dis- 
tribution records in his Funafuti report, C. R. 
Boettger (1916) listed a few marine shells, 
and Ingram and Kenyon (1946) recorded 
cowries from Espiritu Santo. 
The only comprehensive studies are those 
of Fischer and Fischer-Piette (1938, 1939) on 
recent marine shells and of Abrard (1946) on 
fossils. Two short lists appearing in the 
Minutes of the Conchological Club of Southern 
California, no. 23 (1943) are ignored, since 
the identifications of one collection were 
found to be unreliable. 
SYSTEMATIC LIST 
The classification is slightly modified from 
Thiele (1929-1935). Specific and generic no- 
menclature follows recent Japanese useage, 
with the often more familiar synonyms usu- 
ally being cited. Trinomials, when used, rep- 
resent marked morphologic variants whose 
taxonomic status is uncertain. They do not 
represent "subspecies.” 
Identifications have been made from the 
Chicago Natural History Museum collection 
and have been checked against original illus- 
trations whenever possible. For convenience, 
however, I have cited a reference figure from 
an easily available source, such as Hirase and 
Taki (1951) or Kira (1955), for many of the 
common species. Other reference figures are 
from the standard iconographies of Kiener, 
Reeve, Sowerby, Martini and Chemnitz (2nd 
edition), and the Manual of Concholog^. A 
similar procedure was adopted by Demond 
(1957). 
The following symbols indicate the sources 
of the species listed: 
AMNH American Museum of Natural 
History 
Boettger C. R. Boettger (1916) 
Brazier Brazier (1894, 1896) 
CNHM Chicago Natural History Mu- 
seum 
F Fischer and Fischer-Piette 
(1938, 1939) 
PACIFIC 
SCIENCE, Vol. XIII, July 1959 
H 
Donated by Harold Harry 
Hedley 
Hedley (1899) 
IK 
Ingram and Kenyon (1946) 
Mabille 
Mabille (1895) 
MCZ 
Museum of Comparative 
Zoology 
ML 
Collecting station on Espiritu 
Santo 
NH 
Same as ML 
S 
Schilder and Schilder (1952) 
Class PELECYPODA 
Family ARCIDAE 
Anadara pilula Reeve F 
Anadara rhomhea Born F 
Anadara scapha Meuschen Kira (1955: pi. 
43, fig. 12); NH 8 
Area imhricata imhricata Gmelin F 
Area imhrieata avellana Famarck {^maeulata 
Sowerby) Reeve, Area, pL XI, fig. 71; 
NH 14, New Hebrides (Hedley) 
Barbatia bieolorata Dillwyn {=fusea Bru- 
guiere, non Solander) F 
Barbatia lima Reeve { = deeussata of authors, 
non Sowerby) Kira (1955: pi. 42, fig. 12); 
Tangoa, Espiritu Santo 
Barbatia ovata Gmelin { = nivea Chemnitz) 
Reeve, Area, pi. XIV, fig, 90; NH 4, 
NH 5, NH 9, New Hebrides (F) 
Family GFYCYMERIDAE 
Glyeymeris ( Veletueeta) reevei Mayer F 
Family NUCUFIDAE 
Leda vereonis Tate Roy. Soc. So. Austral., 
Trans. 1891: 261, pi. 11, fig. 4 F 
Family MYTILIDAE 
Braehidontes {Septifer) biloeularis Linne Hi- 
rase and Taki (1951: pi. 18, fig. 2); NH 7, F 
Braehidontes {Braehidontes') erebristriatus Con- 
rad Dali, Bartsch, and Rehder (1938: pi. 
8, figs. 5-8); ML 28 
Modiolus aurieulatus Krauss { — moduloides 
Roding }) F 
