Wide-beaked Tellen.
Order Acephala.—Tribe Dimiaria (Nob.).
Generic Character.—Lam. Sys. 5, 519.
Specific Character.
Shell oblong; anterior side narrowed and angulated; both valves glossy, smooth, equally convex, and marked by very delicate radiating striæ.
T. testâ oblongâ, purpurascente, subradiatâ, anteriùs sinuato-angulatâ, rostri margine infimo ascendente. Lam. Syst. 5, p. 523.
There are few groups in Conchology, more particularly among the bivalve shells, possessing so great a union of delicacy and beauty as the Tellinæ; and perhaps there is none in which the species, from their general similarity of shape, and variability of colouring, are so little understood. For these reasons, we intend to illustrate this elegant genus very fully.