Barnea candida showing protoplax ancilliary plate
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Alan Fell
from hard clay, spring low tide, Frinton on Sea, Essex, up to 6.5cm in this population
Barnea candida
<em>Barnea candida</em> (Linnaeus, 1758)
Inside of right valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Length = 59mm. Collected from Dawlish Warren, Devon (in clay) on 29/09/2003 by John Llewellyn-Jones.
Inside of left valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Length = 59mm. Collected from Dawlish Warren, Devon (in clay) on 29/09/2003 by John Llewellyn-Jones.
Outside of left valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Length = 59mm. Collected from Dawlish Warren, Devon (in clay) on 29/09/2003 by John Llewellyn-Jones.
Outside of right valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Length = 59mm. Collected from Dawlish Warren, Devon (in clay) on 29/09/2003 by John Llewellyn-Jones.
Barnea candida
Distribution and status
Ranges from north Norway and the Baltic to the Iberian Peninsula and into the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
The map provided here shows the distribution of the species based on Conchological Society data.
Ecology and behaviour
Bores into peat, wood, mudstone, shale, slate, chalk, marl and sand. The borrows tend to be horizontal.
Key identification features
- Front magin rounded
- Finger like apophysis
Taxon version key
[NBNSYS0000174097]
Sort order
11210
Taxonomic group
Marine bivalve
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Shell up to about 6 cm in length and white in colour. Surface is scupltured with concentric ridges and radiating ribs which form spines where they intersect. Periostracum light brown or straw coloured.