#4610 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Striped Venus

🇳🇱 Gewone venusschelp ·Chamelea striatula

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Jan Johan ter Poorten; modified by Tom Meijer · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Jan Johan ter Poorten · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Jan Johan ter Poorten; modified by Tom Meijer · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © bathyporeia · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. Wassenaar, NL-ZH, NL:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© no rights reserved · CC0
7. Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
8. Noordwijk, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
9. 9161 CT Hollum, Niederlande:© Jörg Freyhof · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 2204 AH Noordwijk, Netherlands:© loes roos · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Chamelea striatula , the striped venus clam , is a marine bivalve mollusc of the family Veneridae which inhabits the northern shores of Europe.

base stats

NL sightings 108iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,030iNaturalist 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 108 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #42 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
1,030 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.