#4602 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Baltic Macoma
🇳🇱 Nonnetje ·Macoma balthica
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Limecola balthica , commonly called the Baltic macoma , Baltic clam or Baltic tellin , is a small saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Tellinidae (the macomas and tellins).
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
- Spotted 131 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #34 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
- 4,022 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Baltic Macoma
- Nederlands
- Nonnetje
- scientific name
- Macoma balthica
- class
- Bivalvia
- order
- Cardiida
- family
- Tellinidae
- sightings in NL
- 131
- sightings in Europe
- 2,679
- sightings worldwide
- 4,022
- GBIF records in NL
- 56,595
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Tellinidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 203759, Wikidata Q805778, GBIF 2286995, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.