. Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. rough many works on Natural History, most of which are not tobe obtained in the Colony, a critical list of all New Zealand specieshitherto published or represented in the European Museums hasbeen prepared for the Department by Dr. von Martens, of Berlin,and will be published in a separate pamphlet, which will form auseful supplement to this Catalogue, by giving all the synonyms ofthe different species. This separation of the work into two partswill be less confusing to collectors, and is moreover due both toDr. v
. Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. rough many works on Natural History, most of which are not tobe obtained in the Colony, a critical list of all New Zealand specieshitherto published or represented in the European Museums hasbeen prepared for the Department by Dr. von Martens, of Berlin,and will be published in a separate pamphlet, which will form auseful supplement to this Catalogue, by giving all the synonyms ofthe different species. This separation of the work into two partswill be less confusing to collectors, and is moreover due both toDr. von Martens and to Captain Hutton, as they worked inde-pendently, the manuscript having been received too late to beemployed in the preparation of the Catalogue, as was originallyintended. JAMES HECTOR. Colonial Museum, 7th May, 1873. C 0 N T E N T 8. SYNOPSIS OF THE CLASSES ... EXPLANATION OF THE TERMS USED EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE KEY TO THE FAMILIES CEPHALOPODA PTEEOPODA HETEBOPODA GASTEROPODA LAMELLIBRANCHIATA BRACHIOPODA POLYZOA TUNICATA PAGEix xixiv XV 1 56 7 58 85 87 104. ERRATA. Page 1. Erase the asterisk from P. cord if or in iv. „ 30. Permetus cariniferus, Gray, is an annelid belonging to the genusIlagostegiis. „ 52. For Flaminea, read Haminea. „ 66. For TelUncB read Tellina. „ 71. C. alatus should have an asterisk before it. „ 86. Erase the asterisk from M. evansii. Dr. Hector obtained a specimen inDusky Bay, which locality is erroneously placed to T. rulicunda. SYNOPSIS OF THE CLASSES. SUB-KINGDOM—MOLLUSCA. SOFT bodied animals, usually provided with an exo-skeleton; theintestinal canal bounded by its own proper walls, and completely shutoff from the perivisceral cavity. DIVISION A—ODONTOPHORA. Nervous system of three principal pairs of ganglia; heart welldeveloped, never composed of less than two chambers ; tongue withlingual teeth. Cephalopoda.—Mouth surrounded by a circle of eight or more arms, p. 1. Pteropoda.—Swimming by means of two fins on eac
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