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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

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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.

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Arthur William Baden Powell, Assistant Director, Auckland Institute and Museum.