#4623 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Norwegian Egg Cockle

🇳🇱 Noorse hartschelp ·Laevicardium crassum

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © WoRMS Editorial Board · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © WoRMS Editorial Board · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. Wassenaar, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. 2051 EC Overveen, Nederland:© marcbobbah · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Oosterend Terschelling, Nederland:© dr. Werner de Gier · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Oosterend Terschelling, Nederland:© Ties Kemme · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Wassenaar, NL-ZH, NL:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. zandmotor:© Marsel · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
10. Strandpaal ZH 97.5, Unnamed Road, 2586, 2586 Den Haag, Netherlands:© Max Willems · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Laevicardium crassum , the Norwegian egg cockle , is a species of saltwater clam, a cockle, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae, the cockles....

base stats

NL sightings 72iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 817iNaturalist 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).