CONCHOLOGY. 



PLATE CXLIL 



VENUS LAMELLATA 

 LAMELLATED VENUS 



Bivalve. 



generic character. 



Hinge furnished with three teeth, two near each other, the third 

 divergent from the beaks. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Shell oval, front angulated, whitish, lamellous plates transverse 

 and distant, appendiculate anteriorly : the upper surface striated. 



Variety. Shell somewhat depressed, lamellous plates narrower 

 and not appendiculate. 



Venus Lamellata : testa ovalij anteriiis angulata, albida ; 



lamellis transversis, distantibus, antice appendi- 

 culatis, latere superiore striatis. 



2 Var. testa subdepressa angustioribus, non 

 • appendiculatis. Lamarcky L 5. p. 592. 28. 



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