#4701 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Truncate Softshell Clam
🇳🇱 Afgeknotte gaper ·Mya truncata
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Raphael Forns · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Neil McDaniel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © canaryrockfish · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © ðejay (Orkney) · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Trond R. Oskars · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © ðejay (Orkney) · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © ðejay (Orkney) · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Paul Norwood · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © ðejay (Orkney) · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © ðejay (Orkney) · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Mya truncata , common name the blunt gaper or truncate softshell , is a species of edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Myidae.
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 13 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 416 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Truncate Softshell Clam
- Nederlands
- Afgeknotte gaper
- scientific name
- Mya truncata
- class
- Bivalvia
- order
- Myida
- family
- Myidae
- sightings in NL
- 13
- sightings in Europe
- 246
- sightings worldwide
- 416
- GBIF records in NL
- 26,872
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Myidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 447416, Wikidata Q320415, GBIF 7865139, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.