#4603 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Rayed Trough Shell

🇳🇱 Grote strandschelp ·Mactra stultorum

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Roger McLachlan · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © cccrll · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © cccrll · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Goedereede, NL-ZH, NL:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Wassenaar, NL-ZH, NL:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Schiermonnikoog, Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
8. Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
9. Bergen, NL-NH, NL:© Arnold Wijker · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Nordatlantik, Oosterend, Provinz Friesland, NL:© markusgmeiner · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Mactra stultorum , previously sometimes known as Mactra corallina , is a species of edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mactridae, the trough shells.

base stats

NL sightings 130iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,624iNaturalist 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 130 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #35 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
3,624 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).