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Show 708 DR. GWYN JEFFREYS ON THE MOLLUSCA OF THE [J Fossil. Upper Tertiaries : British Isles, S. France, Italy. Post-tertiary : Scandinavia, England and Ireland, and Calabria, C. pygmceum of Donovan, and other synonyms. According to Mamo, Maltese specimens spin a byssus. 8. CARDIUM FASCIATUM, Montagu. C.fasciatum, Mont. Test. Brit. Suppl. p. 30 : B. C. ii. p. 281 ; v. p. 181, pi. xxxv. f. 3. 'Porcupine' Exp. 1869 : St. 2, 68. Distribution. Iceland, Faroe Is., Siberian coasts, Vadso to E. Mediterranean, Adriatic, Mogador, Canaries, Azores?; 3-180 fms. Fossil. Miocene : Calabria. Upper Tertiaries and Post-tertiary : Scandinavia, British Isles, Calabria; 0-150 ft. I give a few more particulars of the animal or soft parts. B O D Y pale yellowish-white : mantle thick, protruded considerably beyond the valves of the shell, scalloped on the anterior side : tubes very short, clothed with scattered white cirri of different lengths; orifice of the lower or larger tube encircled by rather short and bluntly pointed stiff, equal-sized cilia ; orifice of the upper or smaller tube plain-edged, mamillar, and furnished with the usual hyaline valve : foot very extensile. Synonyms numerous. I am inclined to regard G. pinnulatum of Conrad, a common North-American shell, as a variety of the present species ; the only difference seems to consist in the rather more oblique contour of G. fasciatum. 9. CARDIUM NODOSUM, Turton. C. nodosum, Turl. Conch. Dith. p. 186, t. 13. f. 8 : B. C. ii. p. 283; v. p. 181, pi. xxxv. f. 4. ' Porcupine' Exp. 1870 : Atl. St. 2, 6, C. Sagres, 30, Tangier B.; Med. Algesiras B. DistriBution. Faroe Is., Hammerfest to Palermo, Adriatic: 0-145 fms. Fossil. Upper Tertiaries and Post-tertiary : Norway, Red and Norwich Crag, Ireland, S. France, Italy ; 0-130 ft. . C. roseum of Lamarck, and a few other more doubtful synonyms. There seems to be no use in trying to unravel the tangled skein of the synonymy of this and some of the foregoing species. 10, CARDIUM EDULE, Linne. C. edule, L. S. N. p. 1124: B. C. ii. p. 286, pi. v. f. 9 ; v. p. 182, pi. xxxv. f 5. 'Porcupine' Exp. 1869 : St. Galway B. (var. rustica), Donegal B. 1870 : Atl. Vigo B.; Med. G. Tunis (var. rustica). DistriBution. All the coasts of Europe and N. Africa, from Iceland and Finmark to Egypt and Morocco, Caspian Sea, Canary Is.; shore-10 fms. Fossil. Miocene and Upper Tertiaries: throughout Europe, Rhodes, Cyprus, and the Sahara. Post-tertiary: Scandinavia, British Isles, Calabria; 0-1360 ft. |