Submitted by admin on April 22, 2009 - 21:17
DOSINIA, RINGED
(Dosinia anus).
This is a shellfish with venus shell, up to 3½ in. thick, flattened, disc-shaped, and sculptured with sharp concentric ridges. It lives buried in sand at and below low tide on open sandy beaches.
by Arthur William Baden Powell, Assistant Director, Auckland Institute and Museum.