Matteson Art

 

Constricted Macoma

Constricted Macoma
Austromacoma constricta (Bruguière, 1792)
Family Tellinidae

The Constricted Macoma is a rare shell on S. Hutchinson Island.


From my collection (S. Hutchinson Island- November, 2020)


Shell size to 2.5"; shell moderately inflated, posterior end bent to right, not elongate as Macoploma tenta. Sculpture of fine, irregular, concentric growth lines. Periostracum thin, brown. Color white.