#4662 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Rough Cockle

🇳🇱 Geknobbelde hartschelp ·Acanthocardia tuberculata

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Wendy Feltham · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © cccrll · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © faluke · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Monster, NL-ZH, NL:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Texel, Niederlande:© Fabian Karner · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
10. zandmotor:© Marsel · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The rough cockle ( Acanthocardia tuberculata ) is a species of saltwater clam, a cockle, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae . The genus Acanthocardia is present from the Upper Oligocene to the Recent.

base stats

NL sightings 27iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,921iNaturalist observations

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).