242 CARDIUM. 



WHITE STRAWBERRY COCKLE. 

 PL 58./. 3. Mr. Strong. 



51. Cardium Unedo. C. testa subcordata, costis lunulis coloratis. Linn* 

 Syst. Nat. ed. 12. p. 1123. Linn. Gmel. p. 3250. 



Shell somewhat heart-shaped ; ribs with coloured rings. 



Testa subcordata, antice angulata, prominens, costis lunulis elevatis, colo- 

 ratis. Brug. Encyc. Meth. Hist. Nat. 6. p. 214. 



Bonan. Recreat. Class. 3. f. 375. List. Conch, pi. 135. f. 151. Rumph. 

 Mus. pi. 44. F. Gualt. Test. pi. 83. f. A. Knorr Vergn. 2. pi. 29. 

 f. 2. Rugenf. Conch, pi. 3. f. 25. Da Costa, Elem. of Conch, pi. 6. 

 f. 8. Chem. Conch. 6. pi. 16. f. 168, 169. Encyclop. Method, pi. 

 295. f. 4. 



A white shell, marked with red rings upon the poste- 

 rior part, and some of the middle ribs, and shaped like 

 the preceding species. It is much larger than the C. 

 Fragum, and is without the close imbricated scales pe- 

 culiar to that shell ; it has thirty longitudinal ribs, with 

 smooth and deep corresponding grooves. In other re- 

 spects it agrees entirely with the preceding species. 



Inhabits the Indian ocean, the coast of Amboina, and, 

 according to Davila, sometimes that of Jamaica. 



