426 American Seashells 



Subgenus Moerella Fischer 1887 

 Tellina saluionea Carpenter Salmon Tellin 



Plate 3iy 



Aleutian Islands to San Pedro, California. 



/4 inch in length, ovalish, with a short, blunt posterior end. Ligament 

 behind the beaks prominent. Dorsal margin in front of beaks almost straight. 

 Color chalky-white, commonly with a pinkish cast. Periostracum smooth, 

 thin, yellowish tan. Characterized by about 4 to 7 prominent, concentric, 

 former growth-stop lines which are usually stained dark-brown. Common 

 from low tide to 34 fathoms in sand. Do not confuse with meropsis. 



Tellina 7neropsis Dall Meropsis Tellin 



Plate 30U 



San Diego, California, to the Gulf of Cahfornia. 



% inch in length, ovalish, pure white, smoothish, with exceedingly 

 fine growth lines. Surface silky, but rarely with an iridescent sheen. Beaks 

 slightly toward the posterior end. Ligament not prominent and light-brown. 

 Without growth stoppage lines. See T. sahnonea. Common from shore to 

 15 fathoms. 



Tellina carpenteri Dall Carpenter's Tellin 



Forrester Island, Alaska, to the Gulf of California. 



Vs inch in length, moderately elongate, with a rounded anterior end 

 and rather truncate posterior end. Ligament short. Color cream, whitish 

 and commonly blushed with watermelon-pink inside and out. It also has 

 a faint iridescent sheen. Found very abundantly in many localities in mud 

 and sand from shore to 369 fathoms. 



Subgenus Scissula Dall 1900 

 Tellina similis Sowerby Candy Stick Tellin 



Plate 40m; figure 86e 



South half of Florida, the Bahamas and western Caribbean. 



I inch in length, moderately elongate, moderately compressed, thin 

 but fairly strong. Color opaque-white with a yellowish blush and with 6 

 to 1 2 short radial rays of red. Interior yellowish with red rays or solid pink 

 or yellow. A red splotch commonly occurs on the hinge in front of the 

 cardinal teeth. Sculpture of concentric growth lines and numerous fine 

 concentric threads njohich cross the shell a-t an oblique angle. Common on 

 sand fiats. T. decora Say is the same species. 



