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colour is whitish, faintly mottled with flesh-tint 

 where the greenish-yellow epidermis has been worn 

 off; at the ends of the valves there is no trace of the 

 ribs. The animal is yellowish white in colour, the 

 mantle tinged with red and its edges plain. The 

 siphons are separated throughout their length but 

 united at the base. It has a large and powerful 

 rounded foot, with a rough flesh-coloured coat. It is 

 a local but plentiful shell, dispersed generally along 

 our shores in from 5 to 80 fathoms, where there is 

 sand or nullipore. 



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