#4575 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Common Cockle

🇳🇱 Kokkel ·Cerastoderma edule

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Ryan Hodnett · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Ryan Hodnett · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © kyselinasirova · CC BY 4.0
4. © Erik Veldhuis · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Амстелвеен, Нидерланды:© Yury Kvach · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Texel, Noord-Holland, Netherlands:© R. Ziebarth · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Den Helder, NL-NH, NL:© thiesbue · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Wassenaar, South Holland, NL:© Lillian Hood · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Usquert, Netherlands:© Joren van Schie · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Netherlands:© tt2019 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Cerastoderma edule , commonly known as the common cockle , is a species of edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae, the cockles.

base stats

NL sightings 475iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,862iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

Spotted 475 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #7 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
6,862 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).