NO. 1210. SYNOPSIS OF NORTH AMERICAN TELLINID^E— BALL. 293 



SPECIES OF THE EASTP]RN (!()AST OF NORTH AiSlEUlCA. 



Genus TELLINA (Linnaeus). 



TELLINA INTERRUPTA Wood, 1815. 



Cape Lookout, North Carolina, .south to Brazil; Bermuda. 



7WUna inaeulosa Lamarck, 1818; Tellina (mitonl Philippi, lS4-t, and 

 TeUina mexicana Petit, 1811, are synonyms. The latter name has 

 been retained in a varietal sense, for the more slender aspects of the 

 species. 



TELLINA LAEVIGATA Linnaeus, 1758. 



Tampa, on the west coast of Florida, Bermuda, and southward. 



This species is not cited from Cuba b}" Arango, herce its range 

 seems in need of elucidation. TeUina Imvis Krebs, not of Rumphius, 

 seems to be the only synonym. 



TELLINA LINEATA Turton, 1819. 



St. Augustine, Florida, south to Brazil. 



TeUina hramliana Lamarck, 1818, not Spengler, 1798, TeUina stri- 

 ata Montagu, 1803, not Chemnitz, TeUina tenuis Conrad, 1831, and 

 TeUina decussatula C. B. Adams, 1845 are synonyms. The hinge is 

 that of EnryteUina^ but the other characters are more like the typical 

 section of the genus. 



TELLINA (LIOTELLINA) RADIATA Linnaeus, 1758. 



Charleston, South Carolina, south to the West Indies; Bermuda. 

 This is variable in color markings, TeUina nivea Wood, 1815, and 

 TeUina tmimaculata Lamarck, 1818, are color varieties. 



TELLINA (MERISCA) CRYSTALLINA Wood, 1815. 



Sullivans Island, South Carolina, Maz3"ck, 181>2; St. Thomas, West 

 Indies, Swift; Carthagena, Krebs. Also on the Pacitic coast. 

 TeUina schraimni Recluz, 1853, is synonymous. 



TELLINA (MERISCA) LINTEA Conrad, 1837. 



Miocene to recent. Coast of North Carolina southward; Mobile 

 Point, Gulf coast (Conrad). 



TELLINA (MERISCA) iEQUISTRIATA Say, 1824. 



Miocene (Maryland) to recent. North Carolina coast southward to 

 northern Brazil. 



Closely resembling the preceding, but more densely sculptured and 

 more elongated. The sinus nearly reaches the anterior adductor, and 

 is wholly confluent below in both species. 



