Saltwater clams, Venus casina, Astarte elliptica, Lutraria, Tapes, Lucinopsis, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Brettingham Sowerby from his own Illustrated Index of British Shells, Sowerby and Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London, 1859. George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812-1884), British naturalist, illustrator, and conchologist.

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