Inside of left valve
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by WG Fowler Coll from Helford River, Cornwall. Length = 44mm.
Spisula solida (Linnaeus, 1758)
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by WG Fowler Coll from Helford River, Cornwall. Length = 44mm.
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by WG Fowler Coll from Helford River, Cornwall. Length = 44mm.
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by WG Fowler Coll from Helford River, Cornwall. Length = 44mm.
Common
Distributed from Norway to the Iberian Peninsula
Burrows in sandy bottoms, sometimes in large numbers. Feeds by filtering phytoplankton.
Thick solid shell up to about 4.5cm in length. The outside is dirty white in colour and the inside white. The pallial sinus reaches to the posterior end of the chondrophore. The surface is sculptured with concentric grooves but it still appears smooth.