corbis

[Lat. corbis a basket.] Zool .: A genus of conchiferous Mollusks, family Lucinidse. It has an oval, ventricose, sub equilateral, concentrically sculptured shell, the margins denticulated within, two huge teeth and two lateral teeth in each valve, and a simple pallial line. Five recent species are known and eighty fo il, the latter from the Lias onward till now. ( Woodward : Mollusca , ed. Tate .)