PLATE XLVII 



TELLINA CARNARIA. Linn. 



FLESH-COLOURED IELLEN, 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



The hinge usually furnished with three teeth; shell generally 

 sloping on one side. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER* 



Somewhat orbicular; valves shallow. White tinged with rose 

 colour, and marked externally with numerous parallel striae, disposed 

 in an oblique, reflexed and transverse direction. 



Tellina carnaria: testa suborbiculata laevi utrinque incarnata 

 oblique striata : striis hinc reflexis. Linn, Syst. 

 Nat. p. 1119. No. 66. 



Concha parva subrotunda, ex parte interna rubens. List. II. An. 

 Angl. p. 175. tit. 25. tab. *.fig. 5. 



Tellina aequilatera laevis, tenuis subrubra. Gualt. 1. Conch, tab. 77 • 



Cardium parvum subrotundum oblique striatum colore carneoso, 

 Carneosum. Da Costa, p. 181. sp. 20, 



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