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A CHECKLIST OF PENNSYLVANIA SPHAERIIDAE

NORMAN]. REIGLE, Jr.

U. S. Forest Service, Ironwood, Michigan

Pennsylvania is one of our better collected and the state obtained through his own collections studied states in the field of malacology. With and through exchange with the Carnegie Muse two well known centers, the Ac.ademy of Natural um. The bulk of the Carnegie material was Sciences and Carnegie Museum at either end of collected by Arnold Ornnann and Victor Sterki. the state, many noted malacologists have found This report will not attempt to summarize or occasion to collect and study in Pennsylvania. utilize to any large degree the previous literature In addition to numerous professionals who have pertainipg to Pennsylvania sphaeriids since most been associated with the state, there has been a of this infspecies of the genus S ph a e r i u m and recently Parodiz ( 1958) has prepared a brief pre twelve species of the genus Pis i diu m have liminary checklist of the freshwater snails of been foi.Dld to date in Pennsylvania. This is a Pennsylvania. Although there haYe been several substantial portion of the 35 species recognized noteworthy sphaeriid collectors in Pennsylvania by Herrington in North ·America. Two species a summary of this family has not been possible listed in this paper, Pisidium obtusale on a pr_actical basis until Herrington's ( 1962) and P. fall ax, have not been previously re revision of the group. His report has also made corded t \the state. possible a number of recent state checklists. This report is a preliminary one and is based Acknowledgements mainly on material in the University of Michi gan Museum of Zoology. The bulk of the Penn I wish to thank the Rev. H. B. Herrington, sylvania collection~ were ob~ained through ex Robert A. Heilman, and Dr. William H. Heard change with Robert A. Heilman of Lebanon, who have all conveyed to me their interest and Pennsylvania. His specimens in turn represent enthusiasm for Sphaeriidae. Dr. Henry van der a compilation of pertinent material thioughout Schalie has kindly allowed me to study material under his charge. 2 STERK! ANA NO. 15, SEPTEMBER 1964

CHECKLIST PISIDIUM ADAMSII Prime. Bethlehem, North SPHAERIUM FABALE Prime. Recorded from ampton County. Big Bend, Presque Isle near Erie, Pennsylvania by Herrington ( 1,962) and in the Erie County. Swquehanna and its tributaries in Lancaster PISIDIUM AMNICUM (MUller). Recorded by County by Hartman and Michener ( 1874). I Herrington (1962). I have not seen any examples have not seen any examples from Pennsylvania. from Pennsylvania. SPHAERIUM LACUSTRE (MUller). Swamp, PISIDIUM CASERTANUM (Poli). Found in all one half mile south of Pinegrove, Schuylkill major drainage systems and thirty-one localities County. in the following 17 counties: Allegheny, Berks, SPHAERIUM OCCIDENTALE Prime. Union Clarion, Colwnbia, Crawford, Dauphin, Dela City, Erie County. ware, Erie, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Mc SPHAERIUM PARTUMEIUM (Say). Swamp, Kean, Monroe, Perry, Philadelphia, Schuylkill, one half mile south of Pinegrove, Schuylkill and York. County. PISIDIUM COMPRESSUM Prime. Has been SPHAERIUM RHOMBOIDEUM (Say). This found to date in the Lake Erie, Susquehanrta and species was recorded from Pennsylvania by Hcr Delaware drainage systems. Specimens are re rington(1962). There is one lot in the Univer corded from fifteen localities in the following ten sity of Michigan Mwewn of Zoology collection counties: Berks, Chester, Dauphin, Erie, Frank labeled Schuylkill River, Belmont, Wayne Coun lin, Lancaster. Lebanon, Northampton, Perry, ty, Pennsylvania, which is erroneous locality in and Philadelphia. Carnation. I have not'seen any valid specimens PISIDIUM DUBIUM (Say). Recorded from Le from Pennsylvania. banon County by Heilman and MacMillan ( 1958) SPHAERIUM SECURIS Prime. Swamp, one and from Chester County by Hartman and Mich half mile south of Pinegrove, Schuylkill County. ener(1874). No specimens are on hand. SPHAERIUM STRIATINUM (Lamarck). Spe PISIDIUM FALLAX Sterki. Misery Bay, Pres cimens are on hand from all the major drainage que Isle near Erie, Erie County. This speci.es has systems of the state, Ohio, Delaware, Susque not been previously recorded from Pennsylvania. hanna, and Lake Erie, . and include fifty-seven PISIDIUM NITIDUM Jenyns. Bethlehem, localities in the following twenty-nine counties: Northampton County. Presque Isle, Erie, Erie Adams, Beaver, Berks, Bradford, Bur.ks, Butler, County. Cambria, Centre, Crawford, Dauphin, Erie, PISIDIUM OBTUSALE Pfeiffer, form VENTRI Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Indiana, Lancaster, COSUM Prime. Bethlehem, Northampton Coun Laurence, Lebanon, Mercer, Monroe, Perry, Phi ty. To the best of my knowledge the species has ladelphia, Potter, Tioga, Warren, Washington, not been previously recorded from Pennsylvania. Wayne, Westmoreland, and York. PISIDIUM PUNCTIFERUM Guppy. Presque SPHAERIUM SULCATUM (Lamarck). The Isle near Erie, Erie County. material studied is from the four major drainage PISIDIUM VARIABILE Prime. Presque Isle near areas and twenty-four localities in the following Erie, Erie County. eighteen counties: Allegheny, Beaver, Berks, PISIDIUM WALKERII Sterki. Columbia, Lan Chester, Crawford, Dauphin, Erie, Indiana, Lan caster County. caster, Laurence, Lebanon, Mercer, Northamp ton, Philadelphia, Potter, Tioga, Warren, and UTERATURE CITED York. BROOKS, Stanley T. ( 1931) A list of the land SPHAERIUM TRANSVERSUM (Say). Two snails of Pennsylvania with a survey of their dis miles west of M ancbes ter, Yak County. Rox tribution. --Annals Carnegie Museum 22(3-4): bury District, Philadelphia. Swatara Creek, two 313-331. miles north of Annville, Lebanon County. Juni HA~TMAN, W. D. and E. MICHENER ( 1874) ata River at Amity Hall, Perry County. Conchologia Cestrica. -- Philadelphia. NO. 15, SEPTEMBER 1964 STERKIANA 3

HERRINGTON, H,B. (1962) A revision of the HEILMAN, Robert A. & MacMILLAN, Gordon Sphaeriidae of !'lorth America (Mollusca; Pe K. ( 1958) Mollusks of Lebanon County, Penn lecypoda). •• Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. sylvania. -- Nautillll 72 (2) : 58-60. Michigan, 118: 1-74, pls. I-VII.

ORTMANN, A. E. (1919) A Monograph on PARODIZ, Juan Jos~ (1958) List of the fresh the Naiades of Pennsylvania. Part 3. System water snails of Pennsylvania. -- Section of In atic account of the genera and species. •• Car vertebrates, Carnegie Museum, PittSburgh 3, negie Mus. Mem. 8, xiv + 684 pp. Penna., 3 pp.

MALACOLOGIA, VOLUME 1, NO.3, JUNE 1964

The third n,umber of MALACOLOGIA appar L. HUBRI~HT - The bidentate species of V en ently completes volume 1. It was received in tridens (Stylommatophora: Zonitidae). June and contains the following papers: Page 417 J, K. NEEL and W. R. ALLEN- The mussel R. POHLO - Ontogenetic changes of form and fauna of the upper Cumberland Basin before mode of life in Tresus nuttalli (Bival- its impoundment. Page 427. via: Mactridae). Page 321 J, LEVER, J.C. JAGER, and A. WESTERVELD MALACOLOGIA has maintained a high stand A new anaesthe~ation technique for fresh ard throughout, both in content and in form. water snails, tested on Lymnaea stagna- The fact that a special number on Pleistocene lis. Page 331 Mollusca is planned for next year indicates that C. M. YAGER and H. W. HARRY - The uptake malacology is considered in its broadest sense - of radioactive Zinc, Cadmium and Copper which is all to the good since students of Tertiary by the freshwater snail, Taphius glabra- Mollusca cannot well get along without knowledge tus. Page 339 of living relatives of the forms they study from the H •. W. HARRY - The anatomy of Chi 11 n a shell alone. On the other hand, students of liv flu c t u o sa Gray reexamined, with prole ing Mollusca, interested even in a casual way in gomena on the phylogeny of the higher lim the zoogeography of the group, must have some nic Basommatophora (Gastropoda: Pulmo- knowledge of the occurrence of Tertiary forms. nata). Page 355 The preparation of each number has involved J. B. BURCH • Cytological studies of Planorbi a tremendous amount of work. In addition to dae (Gutropoda: Basommatopbora). 1. The the usual editorial chores, abstracts in 4 languages African. subgenus Bulin us s. a. Page 387 · have been prepared and published. The editorial J, B. BURCH, J. E. WILUAMS, Y. HISHINU board and the editorS are to be congratulated on a MA and R. NATARAJAN- Chromosomes of fine job well done and which we sincerely hope some Japanese freshwater snails (Baaomma· will be continued. tophora: Branchiopulmonata). Page 403 A. L.