Many-Spined Cockle

Vepricardium multispinosum

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A cockle of soft seabeds, the many spined cockle lives buried in sand and mud, its ribbed shell armed with rows of short spines. Like other cockles it filters plankton from the water and digs with a strong, muscular foot.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Cardiida › Cardiidae › Vepricardium

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 381145.