Tellina radiata Linnaeus 1758

General conchology, or, A description of shells, arranged according to the Linnean system London :Printed for John Booth by B. Howlett,1815. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41889138

Description: English: Tellina radiata Linnaeus, 1758 - interior of a left valve of the sunrise tellin clam from the Virgin Islands. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Seen here is a sunrise tellin clam shell, a colorful species in Family Tellinidae. Tellin bivalves first appeared in the Cretaceous - they are infaunal filter-feeders that inhabit estuarine and marine settings. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Cardiida, Tellinidae Locality: St. Thomas, western Virgin Islands See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellina_radiata. Date: 29 September 2020, 16:51:02. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/50409766533/. Author: James St. John.

Description: English: Tellina radiata Linnaeus, 1758 - exterior of a right valve of the sunrise tellin clam from the Virgin Islands. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Seen here is a sunrise tellin clam shell, a colorful species in Family Tellinidae. Tellin bivalves first appeared in the Cretaceous - they are infaunal filter-feeders that inhabit estuarine and marine settings. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Cardiida, Tellinidae Locality: St. Thomas, western Virgin Islands See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellina_radiata. Date: 29 September 2020, 16:50:27. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/50410474506/. Author: James St. John.

Description: English: Tellina radiata Linnaeus, 1758 - exterior of a right valve of the sunrise tellin clam from the Virgin Islands. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Seen here is a sunrise tellin clam shell, a colorful species in Family Tellinidae. Tellin bivalves first appeared in the Cretaceous - they are infaunal filter-feeders that inhabit estuarine and marine settings. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Cardiida, Tellinidae Locality: St. Thomas, western Virgin Islands See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellina_radiata. Date: 29 September 2020, 16:49:44. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/50410624792/. Author: James St. John.

Description: English: Tellina radiata Linnaeus, 1758 - exterior of a left valve of the sunrise tellin clam from the Virgin Islands. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Seen here is a sunrise tellin clam shell, a colorful species in Family Tellinidae. Tellin bivalves first appeared in the Cretaceous - they are infaunal filter-feeders that inhabit estuarine and marine settings. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Cardiida, Tellinidae Locality: St. Thomas, western Virgin Islands See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellina_radiata. Date: 29 September 2020, 16:50:54. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/50409766733/. Author: James St. John.

Description: Tellina radiata Linnaeus, 1758 - interior of a left valve of the sunrise tellin clam, 6.4 cm across at its widest. Family Tellinidae (Cretaceous to Holocene) - the tellin clams are infaunal, filter-feeding bivalves that inhabit estuarine and marine settings. Date: 16 March 2011, 20:39. Source: Tellina radiata (sunrise tellin clam) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 2. Author: James St. John.

Description: English: Tellina radiata Linnaeus, 1758 - interior of a right valve of the sunrise tellin clam from the Virgin Islands. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Seen here is a sunrise tellin clam shell, a colorful species in Family Tellinidae. Tellin bivalves first appeared in the Cretaceous - they are infaunal filter-feeders that inhabit estuarine and marine settings. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Cardiida, Tellinidae Locality: St. Thomas, western Virgin Islands See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellina_radiata. Date: 29 September 2020, 16:50:46. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/50409766933/. Author: James St. John.

Description: English: Tellina radiata Linnaeus, 1758 - interior of a right valve of the sunrise tellin clam from the Virgin Islands. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Seen here is a sunrise tellin clam shell, a colorful species in Family Tellinidae. Tellin bivalves first appeared in the Cretaceous - they are infaunal filter-feeders that inhabit estuarine and marine settings. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Cardiida, Tellinidae Locality: St. Thomas, western Virgin Islands See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellina_radiata. Date: 29 September 2020, 16:49:57. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/50409767638/. Author: James St. John.

Description: English: Tellina radiata Linnaeus, 1758 - interior of a left valve of the sunrise tellin clam from the Virgin Islands. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Seen here is a sunrise tellin clam shell, a colorful species in Family Tellinidae. Tellin bivalves first appeared in the Cretaceous - they are infaunal filter-feeders that inhabit estuarine and marine settings. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Cardiida, Tellinidae Locality: St. Thomas, western Virgin Islands See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellina_radiata. Date: 29 September 2020, 16:49:19. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/50410475566/. Author: James St. John.

Description: English: A view of the external surface of a valve of Tellina radiata, on display at the Museo Civico Craveri di Scienze Naturali - Bra. Source: Own work. Author: Hectonichus.

Description: English: Tellina radiata Linnaeus, 1758 - exterior of a left valve of the sunrise tellin clam from the Virgin Islands. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Seen here is a sunrise tellin clam shell, a colorful species in Family Tellinidae. Tellin bivalves first appeared in the Cretaceous - they are infaunal filter-feeders that inhabit estuarine and marine settings. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Cardiida, Tellinidae Locality: St. Thomas, western Virgin Islands See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellina_radiata. Date: 29 September 2020, 16:48:54. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/50410473561/. Author: James St. John.