Melapium lineatum (Lamarck 1822)... family uncertain. it is NOT an
olivid or pseudolivid. Exoperts do not place it in either of these;
it has no diagnostic characters to place it in either. However they
don't offer alternatives. My own suspicion is Turbinellidae:
Tudiclinae.
Corculum cardissa (Linné 1758)... Cardiidae: Fraginae.
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Andrew Grebneff
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