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Genus 2. Cunei ; Shells with diffimilar 

 or unequal fides, whofe beak and hinge 

 are placed near to, or quite at one end. 



Genus i. Tellens. It Is not very nume- 

 rous in its fpecies. The rank it holds In 

 authors is as follows : Lifter places them 

 after the Pinnae. Lib. lii. P. 2. Seft. 8. 

 and defines them Shells fliaped like wedges* 

 Woodward makes a genus of them, and 

 fays they have few teeth on the hinge, and 

 are oblong Shells or with lengthened fides : 

 he might have expreffed himfelf better by 

 faying they were broad Shells. Rumphius, 

 Gualtieri, Linnaeus, and Meufchen, have 

 all a genus they call Tellina ; Davlla alfo, 

 but he defines them very inaccurately, and 

 includes the Solens as a genus of them. 

 As for Argenville, he ranks them among 

 the Mufcles. 



In regard to the fecond genus, or Cunei, 

 they are intermixed by authors among the 



X^llens, 



There 



