Outside of right valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by Killeen/Light from Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany. 48o38.4'N 02o04.2'W (30/3/1998). Height = 8mm.
Parvicardium scabrum
<em>Parvicardium scabrum</em> (Philippi, 1844)
Outside of right valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by Killeen/Light from Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany. 48o38.4'N 02o04.2'W (30/3/1998). Height = 8mm.
Outside of right valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by Killeen/Light from Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany. 48o38.4'N 02o04.2'W (30/3/1998). Height = 8mm.
Outside of right valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by Killeen/Light from Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany. 48o38.4'N 02o04.2'W (30/3/1998). Height = 8mm.
Outside of left valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by Killeen/Light from Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany. 48o38.4'N 02o04.2'W (30/3/1998). Height = 8mm.
Outside of right valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by Killeen/Light from Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany. 48o38.4'N 02o04.2'W (30/3/1998). Height = 8mm.
Outside of right valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by Killeen/Light from Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany. 48o38.4'N 02o04.2'W (30/3/1998). Height = 8mm.
Parvicardium scabrum
Distribution and status
Locally common. Distributed from Norway to Morocco and into the Mediterranean.
Ecology and behaviour
Burrows in mud, sand, muddy sand, muddy gravel, shell gravel and occasionally amongst the roots of small algae such as Corallina. Lower shore to over 100m.
Similar species
- Timoclea ovata is more triangular, decussate, has no spines and possesses a pallial sinus
Key identification features
- Ribs covered by close-set slightly arched tubercles
- Cusp like scales at the posterior end
- Surface has 25-28 ribs
Taxon version key
[NBNSYS0000177023]
Sort order
10310
Taxonomic group
Marine bivalve
Up to 8mm long, 7mm high, 5.5mm across, oval-trangular, not skewed, umbones almost central, less plump than the proceding species, heavier for its size, more or less keeled.