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Bosemprella incarnata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Denmark to Canarias, Azores to Mediterranean. Deposit feeder on sandy bottoms, from lower intertidal to outer shelf.
Original taxon: Tellina incarnata.
4m deep, San Damianu harbour, Algajola, NW. Corsica. 37-40mm.
6-10m deep, in muddy sand, Doronatico, Toscana, Italy. 37mm.
Above and below:
off Málaga, Andalucia, S. Spain. 31-35mm.
Synonyms: daniliana, depressa, rubrohyalina, squalida.
« The flesh-coloured Tellina: shell oblong-oval, compressed, thin, very shining, pale flesh-coloured or reddish-orange, ornamented near the posterior fold with a partly duplicate white ray, equivalve, inequilateral… » – L. A. Reeve: Conchologia iconica vol. 17, London 1870.
Beachstormed, near the entrance of Ayrolles lagoon, Gruissan, Occitania, S. France. 26-39mm.
Cap d’Agde, Occitania. 23-30mm.
Each specimen shows this “partly duplicate white ray” near the posterior end. Beach drift, Gruissan. 28mm.
Naxos, Kiklades archipelago. 15-39mm.
Specimens from English Channel.
At low tide on sand, Roc’h Vran, Keremma bay, west of Plouescat, NW. Brittany, NW. France. 27-46mm.
At low tide on sand, La Roche aux Grands, Pointe du Chevet, Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, NE. Brittany, NW. France. 42mm.
Angulus squalidus (Pulteney, 1799) is a pale variant from Atlantic. In all these shells, including the present “squalidus”, the lower margin of the pallial sinus is confluent with the pallial line, as shown in the magnification circle. Low tide, muddy sand, Trébeurden, NW. Brittany, NW. France. 40mm.
Specimens collected at extreme low tide on sand bank, les Noires, Saint-Malo, N. Brittany. 30-37mm.

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