Species Gallery (Bivalvia)
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Abra alba.
Copyright: Peter Barfield
A group of Abra alba.
Copyright: Marine Ecological Surveys Ltd
Abra nitida.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
Abra nitida.
Copyright: Marine Ecological Surveys Ltd
The bivalve Abra prismatica.
Copyright: Marine Ecological Surveys Ltd
The spiny cockle Acanthocardia aculeata on mixed sediment.
Copyright: Jim Anderson
Museum specimens of the spiny cockle.
Copyright: Dennis R. Seaward
Aequipecten opercularis on mixed substrata.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Aequipecten opercularis showing mantle and eyes.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
A resting queen scallop.
Copyright: Gordon Lang
A resting queen scallop.
Copyright: Gordon Lang
Intertidal saddle oyster
Copyright: David Fenwick Snr.
Interior of saddle oyster shell halves
Copyright: David Fenwick Snr.
The saddle oyster Anomia ephippium, showing the mantle edge of the left valve.
Copyright: Paula Lightfoot
The saddle oyster Anomia ephippium, showing the mantle edge of the left valve.
Copyright: Paula Lightfoot
Upper shell of saddle oyster found at low tide.
Copyright: David Fenwick Snr.
Arctica islandica on a black background.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
Astarte montagui.
Copyright: Dr Sebastian Holmes
Astarte sulcata.
Copyright: Dr Sebastian Holmes
Astarte sulcata on a green background.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
Adult Atrina fragilis embedded in sea bed.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Atrina fragilis in muddy gravel, Ireland.
Copyright: Erling Svensen
Atrina fragilis in soft mud in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Atrina fragilis on the seabed.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Atrina fragilis removed from soft mud in Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Side view of Atrina fragilis in the seabed.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Side view of Atrina fragilis on log showing scale.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Barnea candida in situ.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Barnea candida valve.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Apical view of Barnea candida protoplax.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Internal view of Barnea candida valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
External view of Callista chione valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Internal view of Callista chione valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Side profile of Callista chione.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
The common cockle Cerastoderma edule on mud surface.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Cerastoderma edule on a black background.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Shell of Cerastoderma edule opened to display hinge.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Three Cerastoderma glaucum with siphons extended.
Copyright: Dennis R. Seaward
External view of Chamelea gallina valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Chamelea gallina on a black background.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
Internal view of Chamelea gallina valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
External view of Clausinella fasciata valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Internal view of Clausinella fasciata valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Side profile of Clausinella fasciata.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Assorted colours and shapes of banded wedge shells
Copyright: David Fenwick Snr.
Inside of shell half of the banded wedge shell
Copyright: David Fenwick Snr.
Open empty shell of Donax vittatus.
Copyright: Paul Naylor
Shell half of the banded wedge shell
Copyright: David Fenwick Snr.
Shell half of the banded wedge shell
Copyright: David Fenwick Snr.
External view of Dosinia exoleta valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Internal view of Dosinia exoleta valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
The smooth Artemis Dosinia lupinus on a black background.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
Ensis ensis, the razor shell.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Ensis siliqua shell on a dark background.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
The razor shell Ensis siliqua showing almost straight sided valves.
Copyright: Paul Newland
The razor shell Ensis siliqua.
Copyright: Paul Newland
The siphons of a razor shell.
Copyright: Paul Newland
Fabulina fabula.
Copyright: Peter Barfield
Fabulina fabula on a black background.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
Shell of the dog cockle Glycymeris glycymeris.
Copyright: Jo Trout
Both valves of the dog cockle Glycymeris glycymeris.
Copyright: Jo Trout
Multiple Glycymeris glycymeris shells on the seabed.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Hiatella arctica.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Hiatella arctica in burrow.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
External view of Lasaea adansoni valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Limaria hians.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Limaria hians and nest.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Limaria hians hidden within a nest.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Close up of the tentacles of Limaria hians.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Macoma balthica.
Copyright: Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA)
External view of Macomangulus tenuis valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Internal view of Macomangulus tenuis valves.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Magallana gigas at Batten Bay, Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Guy Baker
Magallana gigas (with diver)
Copyright: Paul Newland
Magallana gigas at Firestone Bay, Plymouth Sound.
Copyright: Jack Sewell
Magallana gigas at Jennycliff Bay.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Magallana gigas growing on the side of a marina pontoon.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Magallana gigas on a dark, barnacle covered rock.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Magallana gigas on open rock.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Magallana gigas, Kingsand.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
External view of Mercenaria mercenaria valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Internal view of Mercenaria mercenaria valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Side view of Mercenaria mercenaria lunule.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
The bearded horse mussel on a rocky intertidal shore
Copyright: David Fenwick Snr.
Horse mussel bed with hydroids and red seaweed, Linga Sound, Shetland.
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Clump of horse mussels Modiolus modiolus on bedrock.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Group of horse mussels in sediment.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Musculus discors living in bryozoan turf collected from dead Eunicella verrucosa.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
A selection of adult Mya arenaria.
Copyright: Dr Matthias Strasser
A selection of juvenile Mya arenaria about 2-5 mm in length.
Copyright: Dr Matthias Strasser
Characteristic siphon holes of Mya arenaria.
Copyright: Dr Matthias Strasser
Specimen of Mya truncata.
Copyright: Tim Siferd
Siphons of Mya truncata visible on sediment surface at 19m off Qikiqtarjuag, Canada.
Copyright: Tim Siferd
Myrtea spinifera.
Copyright: Peter Barfield
Clump of mussels.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Mytilus edulis covered in barnacles - close up.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Mytilus edulis covered in barnacles.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Mytilus edulis, on a buoy line, feeding.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Dense clump of mussels with barnacles on individuals.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Dense covering of mussels on intertidal rocks.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Dense growth of young mussels with barnacles and two dog whelks.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Mussel shells displayed on gravel.
Copyright: Sue Daly
Nucula nitidosa
Copyright: Dr Sebastian Holmes
Nucula nitidosa on a black background.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
Nucula sulcata.
Copyright: Dr Sebastian Holmes
A view of the upper (right) side of a native oyster attached to pebbles.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Native oyster Ostrea edulis exposed by the tide at Oreston Spit, Plym Estuary.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Native oyster Ostrea edulis in shallow water at Durgon, Itelford River, Cornwall.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Great scallop, Pecten maximus, and maerl.
Copyright: Sue Scott
Pecten maximus in Doune.
Copyright: Fiona Crouch
Pecten maximus in front of eelgrass
Copyright: Andrew Pearson
Pecten maximus shells.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Pecten maximus shells.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Pecten maximus swimming.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Close up of the Great Scallop Pecten maximus showing the mantle.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
Great scallop ( Pecten maximus) on a gravel bank at the Manacles, southwest Cornwall.
Copyright: Robert Keen
The great scallop in sediment.
Copyright: Dr Keith Hiscock
External view of Petricolaria pholadiformis valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Petricolaria pholadiformis in situ.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Internal view of Petricolaria pholadiformis valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
External view of Phaxas pellucidus valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Phaxas pellucidus lying on top of a sandy shore.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Phaxas pellucidus on a black background.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
Phaxas pellucidus protruding from its burrow.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Phaxas pellucidus.
Copyright: Peter Barfield
Tip of Phaxas pellucidus showing out of its burrow.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Large specimen of Pholas dactylus from off Mumbles Head.
Copyright: Jon Moore
The common piddock Pholas dactylus, South Wales.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
External view of Ruditapes decussatus valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Internal view of Ruditapes decussatus valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Internal view of Ruditapes decussatus valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
External view of Ruditapes philippinarum valve.
Copyright: Terry Wimbleton
Side profile of lunule and ligament of Ruditapes philippinarum.
Copyright: Terry Wimbleton
A number of Scrobicularia plana being dug out of coarse sediment.
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Closeup of the hinge of one valve of the peppery furrow shell
Copyright: David Fenwick Snr.
Interior of one valve of the peppery furrow shell
Copyright: David Fenwick Snr.
One valve of the peppery furrow shell
Copyright: David Fenwick Snr.
Overhead shot of star shaped depressions left by siphons of Scrobicularia plana.
Copyright: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
External view of Spisula elliptica valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Internal view of Spisula elliptica valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
The surf clam Spisula solida.
Copyright: Bob Williams
External view of Spisula solidissima valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Internal view of Spisula solidissima valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
External view of Tellimya ferruginosa valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Tellimya ferruginosa in a laboratory.
Copyright: Judith Oakley
Tellimya ferruginosa on a black background.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
Internal view of Tellimya ferruginosa valves.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
External view of Thracia convexa valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
External view of Thracia villosiuscula valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
External view of Thyasira gouldii valve.
Copyright: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
The oval venus, Timoclea ovata.
Copyright: Peter Barfield
Varicorbula gibba.
Copyright: Dr Sebastian Holmes
Varicorbula gibba on a black background.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
Varicorbula gibba shell opened to show ligment and hinge teeth.
Copyright: Dr Sebastian Holmes
Varicorbula gibba.
Copyright: Dr Sebastian Holmes
Venus verrucosa in a laboratory.
Copyright: Dr Hilmar Hinz
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