A 
CONCHOLOGICAL DICTIONARY 
OF 
THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 
ANOMIA. BOWL-SHELL. 
Shell with two unequal valves; one of them 
usually flat and perforated near the hinge, through 
which it is fixed to other substances: hinge with¬ 
out teeth ; a transverse oblong projection on the 
flat valve connecting the convex one by a strong 
cartilage under the beak. 
1. Anomia electrica. Amber Bowl-shell. Fig. 67. 
Lister , pi. 205. f. 39. 
Anomia pellucida. Brown, Wem. Soc. p. 514. 
Shell thin, brittle, transparent, glassy round the edges, 
somewhat orbicular, a little distorted but not undulated 
round the circumference; the upper-valve convex, and 
something rugged or irregularly wrinkled on the outer sur¬ 
face; under-valve flat and scaly, with a large perforation 
near the hinge: color bright yellow, or amber, with more 
or less of a greenish tinge, and becoming yellowish-white 
after much exposure to the air: beaks pointed, hardly reach¬ 
ing to the margin, which is rounded: inside bright glossy 
yellow ; diameter an inch and a quarter. 
It differs from A. Ephippiurn in color, in having the up¬ 
per valve much more convex, and not so irregular round 
the circumference. 
West of Ireland, and England, and Dublin bay. v. v. 
b 2. Anomia 
