Thanks to all for the input.

I couldn't figure out how to search the BHL site.  Thanks for the link.

The reference was from Malacolog, but I can't find it again.

The description in C&T does not address my issue.  So, does anyone have
samples of this shell collected from Massachusetts or close waters?

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That issue of the Proceedings is on the Biodiversity Heritage Library at

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37030#220

though I don't see any reference to adamsi.

Bruce Neville
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Vokes and Vokes cite:

Lea, H.C., 1846 Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. (N.S.) 9: 268.

Does this work?

Harry
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Are you sure of this citation?  The Proceedings are available on line at
Biodiversity Heritage.  You can read them online or select pages for them to
send you by email. A very simple, effective, and fast system.  However, I
could not locate  a paper by Lea at the pages cited.

dick p.
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Harry wrote:

The earliest name was Cerithium terebrale C. B. Adams, 1840 [non Lamarck,
1804]. The description of this Adams taxon is reproduced in Clench and
Turner (1950: 349-350). On plate 37 of their work there is a figure of the
lectotype and two enlargements of Adams' type figures.

Seeing the homonymy, Adams renamed the species C. terebellum in 1847 (Clench
and Turner, 1950: 349), but not before H.C. Lea named the species. According
to Vokes and Vokes (1984: 18), Lea proposed a replacement name rather than
performing independent nomenclatorial action.

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From: marlo krisberg <mailto:[log in to unmask]>

Does anyone have a copy of the following:

Lea, H. C. 1845. A description of some new species of marine shells
inhabiting the coast of the United States. Proceedings of the Boston Society
of Natural History 1: 204-205. [Stated date: -- Mar 1845.]

If so, can you be so kind as to scan and provide a copy of the description
of  Seila adamsi.

marlo
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