A Manual of Conchology / According to the System Laid Down by Lamarck, with the Late Improvements by De Blainville. Exemplified and Arranged for the Use of Students.

by Thomas Wyatt

S. occidens. The setting-sun Sanguinolaria. Pl. [7], fig. 4.

Oval, a little elongated, very compressed, slightly gaping, valves elliptical, equally rounded at the two extremities, without mark of posterior keel; summits slightly indicated; hinge formed by one or two contiguous cardinal teeth on each valve; ligament projecting, convex; margins not parallel.

2. Psammobia. Eighteen species.

Taken from the Tellina, which it much resembles in form, but from which it differs by not having the irregular plait on the anterior part.

Shell ovate, transverse, slightly gaping; summits projecting; hinge formed by two teeth on one valve, and only one inserted on the other.

Psammobia virgata.

P. Ferroensis.

P. vespertina.

P. florida.

P. muculosa.