| Cardiidae (cockles) |
| 10.16 cm SHL (male/unsexed) |
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benthic; marine; depth range 5 - 30 m |
| Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean: from Celtic and Lusitanian provinces, extending into the Mediterranean. |
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Shell: solid, convex valves, equivalve and inequilateral, roughly oval in shape, uniformly deep yellow brown in color; sculpture consists of 20-22 well-developed ribs, with triangular spikes along the mid-line, in between are very marked concentric grooves; external ligament behind the umbones, hinge is heterodont; inside the valves are two identical scars (dimyarian and isomyarian) joined by a continuous pallial line, lacking a sinus. Body: foot is roughly cylindrical, well developed and used for leaping on the sand; distal extremity is bright red. |
| Minimum depth from Ref. 2703. Maximum depth from Ref. 106644. |
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Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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