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Prickly Cockle

Acanthocardia echinata

Classification

Family
Cardiidae

Acanthocardia echinata, the prickly cockle or European prickly cockle, is a species of saltwater clam, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Cardiidae. The prickly cockle was one of the many invertebrate species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae, where it was given the binomial name Cardium echinatum. The yellowish-brown shell is up to 75 mm in diameter, and is adorned by 18 to 22 spiny ridges.

Distribution

Dick Belgers · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 801United Kingdom · 513France · 505Germany · 96Spain · 65Italy · 38Belgium · 4