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Shell longitudinal, wedge-shaped, equivalve, the valves gaping; the umbones straight, pointed.

Shell bivalve, equivalve, very transversely elongated, open at both ends.

Shell transverse, equivalve, not affixed, the tops decorticated.

A bivalve is said to be equivalve when the two shells composing it are of the same size, inequivalve when they are not.