Cardiidae
Tridacna maxima (Röding, 1798)
Tridacna maxima (Röding, 1798)
Tridacna maxima, the small giant clam, is a smaller giant bivalve with a wide Indo-Pacific distribution.
Tridacna crocea Lamarck, 1819
Tridacna crocea Lamarck, 1819
Tridacna crocea, the boring clam, is the smallest tridacnine clam native to the Indo-Pacific, that burrows into massive corals.
Tridacna squamosa Lamarck, 1819
Tridacna squamosa Lamarck, 1819
Tridacna squamosa, the fluted giant clam, is a large sessile reef bivalve native to the Indian and South Pacific Oceans that hosts symbiotic zooxanthellae.
Tridacna derasa (Röding, 1798)
Tridacna derasa (Röding, 1798)
Tridacna derasa, the southern smooth giant clam, is a large giant clam species found in Pacific reef waters.
Tridacna gigas (Linnaeus, 1758)
Tridacna gigas (Linnaeus, 1758)
Tridacna gigas, the giant clam, is the world's largest living bivalve, a sessile Indo-Pacific hermaphroditic coral reef species.
Tridacna noae (Röding, 1798)
Tridacna noae (Röding, 1798)
Tridacna noae is a medium-sized giant clam found across the Indo-West Pacific on shallow coral reefs.
Hippopus hippopus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hippopus hippopus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hippopus hippopus is a medium-sized tridacnine clam found in shallow Indo-Pacific tropical reefs and sandy seagrass beds that is a protandrous hermaphrodite with symbiotic photosynthetic dinoflagellates.
Clinocardium nuttallii (Conrad, 1837)
Clinocardium nuttallii (Conrad, 1837)
Clinocardium nuttallii, the only species in its genus, is an edible cockle ranging from the Bering Sea to Southern California, historically harvested for food by Indigenous peoples.
Fragum unedo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Fragum unedo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Fragum unedo is a benthic bivalve species with a robust patterned shell, found in Indo-Pacific sandy or muddy benthic habitats.
Americardia media (Linnaeus, 1758)
Americardia media (Linnaeus, 1758)
Americardia media, the Atlantic strawberry cockle, is a saltwater cockle found along the North American Atlantic coast.
Dinocardium robustum (Lightfoot), 1786
Dinocardium robustum (Lightfoot), 1786
Dinocardium robustum is a large North Atlantic and Caribbean cockle bivalve with a distinctively colored, sturdy symmetrical shell.
Laevicardium mortoni (Conrad, 1831)
Laevicardium mortoni (Conrad, 1831)
Laevicardium mortoni, or Morton's egg cockle, is a Cardiidae bivalve mollusc found along the North American Atlantic coast.
Laevicardium elatum (G.B.Sowerby I, 1833)
Laevicardium elatum (G.B.Sowerby I, 1833)
Laevicardium elatum is a bivalve with 120–130 mm shells found in sandy shallow waters off Mexico’s west coast in the Eastern Pacific.
Laevicardium pictum (Ravenel, 1861)
Laevicardium pictum (Ravenel, 1861)
Laevicardium pictum (Ravenel's egg cockle) is a Cardiidae family bivalve found from Florida to the West Indies along the North American Atlantic coast.
Laevicardium crassum (Gmelin, 1791)
Laevicardium crassum (Gmelin, 1791)
Laevicardium crassum is a bivalve with a distinct smooth, ribbed shell found in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean.
Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cerastoderma edule, the common cockle, is an edible Atlantic bivalve mollusc important to wild fisheries and aquaculture.
Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789)
Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789)
Cerastoderma glaucum, the lagoon cockle, is a euryhaline saltwater bivalve found along European and North African coasts.
Acanthocardia tuberculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acanthocardia tuberculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acanthocardia tuberculata is a spiny-ribbed bivalve mollusk found in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea.
Acanthocardia aculeata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acanthocardia aculeata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acanthocardia aculeata is a spiny-ribbed phytoplankton-feeding bivalve found in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean.
Acanthocardia echinata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acanthocardia echinata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acanthocardia echinata, the prickly cockle, is a marine bivalve mollusc found in British Isles and northwestern Europe.
Monodacna colorata (Eichwald, 1829)
Monodacna colorata (Eichwald, 1829)
Monodacna colorata is a small bivalve species native to Black and Azov Sea freshened areas, introduced widely as fish food.
Trachycardium egmontianum (Shuttleworth, 1856)
Trachycardium egmontianum (Shuttleworth, 1856)
Trachycardium egmontianum is a North Atlantic cockle species with V-shaped hooked ribs that improve its sandy burrowing.
Dallocardia muricata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Dallocardia muricata (Linnaeus, 1758)
The yellow prickly cockle, Dallocardia muricata, is a Cardiidae bivalve mollusc found on the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to Brazil.
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