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Specimen, shell

Other name(s): 
Clausinella fasciata
Venus fasciata
Banded venus
Collection ID: 
Z555.1.201
Collection: 
Zoology
Class: Bivalvia. 10 specimens. 8 have both valves still attached, 1 right and 1 left valve that are almost certainly from the same animal and were likely attached. Fairly small, sub-triangular in shape with very well defined concentric ribs. Varies in colour through whites, yellows, pinks and purples with thick bands of colour radiating from the umbo. Found in coarse gravels in the sublittoral to depths of about 100 m.

Field collection

CollectorRobert Rendall

References

Reference literatureRendall, R. 'Mollusca Orcandensia' (1956) Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 66, pp.131-201 (p.180)