#4705 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Prickly Cockle
🇳🇱 Gedoornde hartschelp ·Acanthocardia echinata
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what is it?
The prickly cockle ( Acanthocardia echinata ) is a species of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Cardiidae . The genus Acanthocardia is present from the Upper Oligocene to the Recent.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 12 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,108 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Prickly Cockle
- Nederlands
- Gedoornde hartschelp
- scientific name
- Acanthocardia echinata
- class
- Bivalvia
- order
- Cardiida
- family
- Cardiidae
- sightings in NL
- 12
- sightings in Europe
- 795
- sightings worldwide
- 1,108
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Cardiidae
#4575 📷 10Common Cockle
🇳🇱 Kokkel
Cerastoderma edule
👀 475 in NL
#4623 📷 10Norwegian Egg Cockle
🇳🇱 Noorse hartschelp
Laevicardium crassum
👀 72 in NL
#4662 📷 10Rough Cockle
🇳🇱 Geknobbelde hartschelp
Acanthocardia tuberculata
👀 27 in NL
#4683 📷 10Lagoon Cockle
🇳🇱 Brakwaterkokkel
Cerastoderma glaucum
👀 18 in NL
#4835 📷 10Small Giant Clam
🇳🇱 Gravende Doopvontschelp
Tridacna maxima
LC 🌍 7.6k seen
#4839 📷 9Nuttall's Cockle
Clinocardium nuttallii
🌍 7.4k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 740114, Wikidata Q3015875, GBIF 5189004, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.