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about an inch, or an inch and half long, and 

 more than twice as broad. 



The Tellina Radiata is found very abundantly 

 in the West Indies ; it also inhabits the European 

 ocean. 



TELLINA Carnaria* 

 ROSY TELLEN. 



Specific character. Shell suborbicular, rather 

 more produced on one side than the other, sub- 

 pellucid, marked with delicate minute crowded 

 striae, which at the centre are oblique, at the 

 shorter end curved and flexuous, at the produced 

 end straight, and which meeting the oblique 

 striae of the centre form with them angles ; the 

 hinge which is towards the posterior side, has 

 two small teeth in one valve, and one in the 

 other, with strong laminated lateral teeth ; flesh 

 colour both within and without, length about 

 three quarters of an inch, breadth rather more. 



GENUS. CARDIUM.t 



COCKLE. 



Generic character. Shell bivalve, equivalve, 

 equilateral, convex ; the contour of many of the 



* Carnaria is derived from the Latin earn e, with flesh, thw 

 apeciea being so called from their flesh colour 

 f Plate VIII. figures 1,2. 



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