(Shuttleworth, 1856)
Trachycardium egmontianum
Florida Prickly Cockle
Phylum:
Mollusca
Taxonomy
Class:
Bivalvia
Order:
Cardiida
Family:
Cardiidae
ANSP 193109
Shell Information
Maximum size (mm): 84
Chirality:
N/A
Description:
Ecological Information
Distribution:
North Carolina to Florida
Depth (m):
0 to 60 meters
Diet:
Suspension feeder
Habitat:
Soft sand or mud
Works Cited
MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Trachycardium egmontianum (Shuttleworth, 1856). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=519471 on 2022-09-10
Morris, P. A. (1987). A field guide to shells: Atlantic and Gulf coasts and the West Indies (3rd ed.). Houghton Mifflin.
Rosenberg, G. 2009. Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. [WWW database (version 4.1.1)] URL http://www.malacolog.org/