TELLINA. 81 



Inhabits the coasts of Amboyna. Rumphius. Molucca Islands. 

 Chemnitz. 



Shell from an inch and a quarter to two inches long, and nearly 

 twice as broad, rounded at one end, and truncated and angu- 

 lated at the other, with the margin of the cartilage slope 

 toothed ; the hinge is placed rather nearest to the posterior 

 end, and has a bifid tooth in one valve, and a plain one in 

 the other, with the lateral teeth not remote, but nearly obso- 

 lete ; it is of a rich yellow, or fine orange colour, delicately 

 striated transversely. 



acuta. 21. Shell oval, compressed, very minute- 

 ly striated longitudinally, and the margins 

 sharp. 



Tellina acuta. Wood's Conch, p. 157. t. 44. f. 1. 



Inhabits the West Indies. Wood. 



Length two inches, and breadth three and a quarter, and de- 

 scribed by Mr. Wood to be ' a flat, thin, pellucid shell, of a 

 white colour, with a tinge of yellow near the apex, but not 

 perceptibly rayed. The surface is marked longitudinally with 

 extremely fine striae ; the beak is slightly curved, and the an- 

 gle is determined by a concavity, running from the apex to 

 the margin in the upper shell ; the margins are very sharp- 

 edged. The hinge has two teeth in one valve, and one in 

 the other ; there is but one lateral tooth.' 



planata. 22. Shell ovate, compressed, slightly 

 striated transversely, and the margins acute ; 

 hinge without any lateral teeth. 



Tellina planata. Linnaus Syst. Nat. 1117. Born. Mus. 



p. 33. t. 2. f. 9- Wood's Conch, p. 157- 

 Tellina complanata. Gme/in, p. 328Q. 

 Tellina, No. 80. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 22. 



Inhabits the European and Mediterranean Seas. Linnaus. 



Neither of the two figures to which Linnaeus has referred, an- 

 swer his description, and this must probably always remain 

 rather an uncertain species. Pennant considered it to be T. 

 tenuis, and Chemnitz, Schroeter, and Gmelin, have referred, 

 though with a mark of doubt, to what appears to be a varie- 

 ty of T. radiata. Solander refers only to Lister, t. 395. 

 f. 242, which a good deal resembles Bora's t. 2. f. 9. and 

 of this, under the name of the Linnasan T. planata, the fol- 

 lowing description is given. Shell one inch and a quarter 

 long, and two inches and five lines broad, obovate, flattish 3 



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