Doug Wolfe

ABSTRACT: Cape Hatteras has long been accepted as the de facto northern range limit rof a large number o f marine mollusks regularly found along the coast and offshore of the southeastern U.S. and ni hte Caribbean. roF many fo those species, however, detailed records of occurrence era lacking or have become obscure. Recent recreational diving on the many wreck sites located just south of Cape Hatteras has confirmed hte presence o f several mollusks not recently or regularly reported from this region and substantiated their northern range li with specific collection localities. Significant northerly range extensions era reported for nie speceis: aniP carnea (Gmelin, 1791), Ctenoides scaber (Born, 17,8) Diodora list(edr'Oi rbigny, 1847), Fissurella barbaden s i s (Gmelin, 1791), Tonna pennata (Mörch, 1852), Bursa grayana Dunker, 1862, Coralliophila scalariformis (Lamarck, 1822), Conus ermineus (Born, 1778), nda Polystira starretti (Petuch, 202). Generalized ranlgimeits are substantiated with specific collection locales for several additional species. We also document adoitinal
North Carolina records not associated with the Hatters wrecks, with the aim of publicizing earlier erpostr which may have been overlooked: Jouannetia quilling Turner, 195; Hyotissa megintyi Harry, ;1589 and Echnoitot-il
rina placida Reid, 2009.

The November 3, 1973 meeting of the North Carolina Shell Club was held at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill and featured Dr. Marc Imlay from the Office of Endangered Species in the US Department of Interior in Washington, D.C. He spoke on rare and endangered mollusks. On the next day, Nov 4, He and Dr. Rowland Shelley from the NC Museum of Natural History in Raleigh, along with club president Doug Wolfe, led a freshwater field trip into the nearby upper sections of the Tar River to search for and collect freshwater snails and mussels. About 8-10 club members were present at the first collecting site, located at the US rt15 bridge crossing 4.8 miles south of the Oxford town center in Granville County. We waded in the gently flowing stream, in clear water from a few inches to perhaps 2 feet deep, on fine to coarse sand between fairly steep and high banks, picking up dead shells, feeling for live mussels with our toes, and "noodling" with our fingers in the soft sediments along the streambank to dislodge any mussels there. There some of the lucky members found the beautiful Yellow Lance, Elliptio lanceolata (I. Lea, 1828), including one or two live specimens; I came away with only four more common species:.

- The type specimens of Drillia wolfei originated in a poorly documented commercial fishery for Argopecten gibbus (Calico Scallop), and the published type locality (east of Cape Lookout, NC) is in error. Evidence presented here indicates that the type material most likely originated from the rarely fished Calico Scallop grounds in the eastern Gulf of Mexico (off western Florida between Tampa and the Florida Keys). In accord with International Code of Zoological Nomenclature rules, it is recommended that the type locality be corrected to the Gulf of Mexico's west Florida shelf, between Tampa and the Florida Keys, at 12–46 m depth. This region corresponds to authenticated specimens in the collections of the US National Museum and the Delaware Museum of Natural History.

The type specimens of Drillia wolfei originated in a poorly documented commercial fishery for Argopecten gibbus (Calico Scallop), and the published type locality (east of Cape Lookout, NC) is in error. Evidence presented here indicates that the type material most likely originated from the rarely fished Calico Scallop grounds in the eastern Gulf of Mexico (off western Florida between Tampa and the Florida Keys). In accord with International Code of Zoological Nomenclature rules, it is recommended that the type locality be corrected to the Gulf of Mexico's west Florida shelf, between Tampa and the Florida Keys, at 12-46 m depth. This region corresponds to authenticated specimens in the collections of the US National Museum and the Delaware Museum of Natural History.

Abstract. R.E. Petit, a life member of the South Carolina Academy of Sciences, died on 31 December 2013. R.E. Petit, a life member of the South Carolina Academy of Sciences, died on 31 December 2013. His remarkable scientific achievements as a self-trained malacologist are summarized, including an extensive list of named Molluscan taxa, mostly in the Cancellariidae, and a bibliography of his malacological

A standing population of Rungia cuneata Gray was sampled at one station on the Trent River (Neuse River watershed; eastern North Carolina) 12 times between Novem-ber 9, 1965, and July 6, 1967. Length-frequency analysis of the clams revealed five distinct size groups, which were recognizable in three or more consecutive samples. From the progession of lengths in the size groups, two growth parameters were estimated in order to construct hypothetical von Bertalanffy curves describing growth in Rmagia czcneatu. The derived growth equations indicate that the clam reaches its maximum length of about 75 mm in approximately 10 years.