Jactellina clathrata, commonly known as the shiborizakura tellin (squeezed cherry blossom tellin), is a species of tellinid, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Tellinidae.
[1] The shells of these burrowing tellins are oval, elongated and much flattened.
[4] Deshayes originally described Jactellina clathrata as having characteristics similar to Fabulina fabula,[3] which burrows into silty sand in sublittoral habitats and extends an inhalant siphon above the sediment surface to feed.
[5] The inhalant siphon sucks in suspended particles and vacuums up detritus from the sediment surface.
[2][7] This species occurs widely in Western Pacific Ocean and along northern Australia, East Timor, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Japan, Hawaii and Vanuatu.