#4763 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Northern Quahog

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse venusschelp ·Mercenaria mercenaria

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © 2011 Marlo F. Krisberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Violet T. · CC BY 4.0
3. © Katherine Treskow · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Susan J. Hewitt · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Dr. Cailin O'Connor · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © mamiles · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © cyric · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

The hard clam ( Mercenaria mercenaria ), also known as a quahog (or quahaug ), round clam , or hard-shell (or hard-shelled ) clam , is an edible marine bivalve mollusc that is native to the eastern shores of North America and Central America, from Prince Edward Island to the Yucatán Peninsula. It is one of many unrelated edible bivalves that in the United States are frequently referred to simply as clams, as in the expression "clam digging". Older literature sources may...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,475iNaturalist 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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
7,475 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.