#4839 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Nuttall's Cockle
Clinocardium nuttallii
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what is it?
Clinocardium nuttallii , common name Nuttall's cockle, basket cockle, or Heart cockle, is a species of large edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae, the cockles.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 7,377 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Timothy Abbott Conrad in 1837 (189 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Nuttall's Cockle
- scientific name
- Clinocardium nuttallii
- class
- Bivalvia
- order
- Cardiida
- family
- Cardiidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 7,377
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1837 by Timothy Abbott Conrad
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
#4705 📷 7Prickly Cockle
🇳🇱 Gedoornde hartschelp
Acanthocardia echinata
👀 12 in NL
#4835 📷 10Small Giant Clam
🇳🇱 Gravende Doopvontschelp
Tridacna maxima
LC 🌍 7.6k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 69925, Wikidata Q3794624, GBIF 2286559, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.