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TELLINA: 



SHELL BIVALVE, GENERALLY SLOPING, OR SOME- 

 WHAT CURVED ON ONE SIDE; HINGE WITH THREE 

 PRIMARY TEETH, AND THE LATERAL TEETH IN 

 ONE OF THE VALVES OBSOLETE. 



Subdivisions. If 



u * Shells ovate, and thickish. 



* # Shells ovate, and compressed- 

 *** Shells sub-orbicular. 



* Shells ovate , and thickish. 



gargadia. 1. Shell roundish, compressed, wrinkled 

 on the anterior side, and toothed on the slope. 



Tellina Gargadia. IAnnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1 1 16. Chemnitz, 

 vi. p. 83. t. 8. f. 63 and 64. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 641. 

 Gmelin, p. 3228. Wood's Conch, p. 144. 



Cardium Gargadia. Mus. Gevers, p. 340. No. I6l6. 



Rumphius Mus. t. 42. f. N. Petiver Amb. t. 18. f. 12. 

 Klein. Ost. t. 10. f. 55. 



t The following of Gmelin's species are too obscure to be retained. Tellina 

 aspera, p. 3237. T. albicans, p. 3238. T. alata, p. 3238. T. candidissima, p. 

 3231. T. fasciata, p. 3238. T. Gallica, p. 3244. T. Jamaicensis, p. 3237. T. 

 Iberica, p. 3243. T. inaquilatera, p. 3231. T. Knorrii, p. 3231. T. lata, p. 

 3237. T. pectinata, p. 3236. T. purpurea, p. 3243. T. sinuosa, p. 3243. T. 

 triangularis, p. 3237. I have also omitted T. maculata of Lin Trans, viii. p. 48. 

 which is a very obscure species, and T. crystalline of Chemnitz, xi. p. 210. of 

 which only a single valve has been discovered. 



