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Species Page:

Yellow Prickly Cockle

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Dallocardia muricata

Class:

Bivalvia

Order:

Cardiida

Family:

Cardiidae

Cardiidae

Image Voucher: 

ANSP 332098

Shell Information

Maximum size (mm): 70

N/A

Chirality:

Description:

Ecological Information

Distribution:

Depth (m):

North Carolina to Venezuala

0 to 11 meters

Diet:

Suspension feeder

Habitat:

Marine; Soft sand or mud

Misc. Facts

Citations

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Dallocardia muricata (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381280 on 2021-07-20

Rosenberg, G. 2009. Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. [WWW database (version 4.1.1)] URL http://www.malacolog.org/

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