#4683 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Lagoon Cockle

🇳🇱 Brakwaterkokkel ·Cerastoderma glaucum

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Juan Valentín · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Andrew Butko · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Valentina · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Анатолий Кузьмин · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Peter Gabler · CC0
6. © katunchik · CC BY 4.0
7. Аральск, Казахстан:© Kudaibergen Amirekul · CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Zingst, Deutschland:© nicandra711ph · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Lithuania:© Paulius Rupšas · CC BY 4.0
10. Каспийское море, Азербайджан, AZ:© Anastasiia Merkulova · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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

base stats

NL sightings 18iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,527iNaturalist 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).