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Cardiidae
Updated November 19, 2008
Cardiidae
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Stock # # Available Name Description Locality $USD
..29715...(2)...Callocardia thorae Vokes, 1985....15, 18 mm, F++. Shiny white, globose & highly inflated...Philippines...$18 (2 available)
...26169...(8)...Callocardia thorae Vokes, 1985....17 to 22mm. F++. Smooth white deep water cockles, VERY tricky to get...South China Sea...$20 (8 available)
...18722...(1)...Cardium beechei Reeve, 1840...39 & 40mm. F++. Superb guys! Mottled rose pink with interesting bi-zonal rib arrangement: the tops!...Australia...$13 (1 available)
...20427...(4)...Cardium edule Linne, 1758...27 to 30mm. F++. Nice examples of the edible cockle of Europe. Alive, alive ho!...Belgium...$2 for 2 of them (4 available)
...26511...(4)...Cardium flavum Linne, 1758....28 to 31mm. F++. Sharp ribbed white ovals...Australia...$4 (4 available)
*...8037...(1)...Cardium hemicardium Linne, 1758...27mm. Gem. Exquisite!.Philippines..$2 (1 available)
....14011...(3)...Cardium minimum Philippi, 1836...6 - 9mm. F++. Tiny, hard to find cold-water cockle..England...$6 (3 available)
...33743...(2)...Cardium sp....60. 72mm. F++. Quite laterally compressed, producing an elongate shell with strong ribs...Tanzania...$6 (2 available)
NEW...34345...(+)...Cerastoderma edule Linne, 1758....23 to 28mm. F+. Good examples of the European edible cockle...Belgium...$3 for 2 (14 available)
*...8034..(1)....Cerastoderma glaucum Bruguiere, 1789...54 - 53mm. F+ Fresh-dead, but ok. Netherlands..$2 (1 available)
...25405...(2)...Clinocardium nuttalli Conrad, 1837....76 to 82mm. F++. BIG! with partial periostracum between strong ribs...Washington...$5 (2 available)
NEW...35121...(1)...Corculum cardissa Linne, 1758....32mm. F+ solid. Spectacular lemon yellow, rarely this intense, with a few pink accent spots...Philippines...$7 (1 available)
...23303...(1)...Corculum cardissa Linne, 1758...67mm. F++. Jumbo!! Almost pure white - only a few scattered red dots: quite different!!...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
...31450...(pr)...Corculum cardissa Linne, 1758....35 & 37 mm. F+ high. Neat pair, one pastel orange & smooth-keeled, the other bright yellow & with strong keel spines...Philippines...$6/pr. (1 pr. available)
...26052...(5)...Corculum cardissa Linne, 1758....42 to 52mm. F++. Pretty pastel yellow examples...Philippines...$4 (5 available)
...25886...(1)...Corculum cardissa Linne, 1758....62 to 64mm. F++. King sized hearts, in nearly pure white - just "touches" of color...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
...23303A...(1)...Corculum cardissa Linne, 1758...51mm. F++. Pure White albino!..Philippines...$15 (1 available)
...23239...(1)...Corculum cardissa Linne, 1758...62mm. F+ high: good quality. PURE, CLEAR YELLOW - this one rings my chimes!..Philippines...$15 (1 available)
...23304...(3)...Corculum cardissa Linne, 1758...57 to 60mm. F++. Creamy white & on the large size. I guess you could call them big-hearted...Philippines...$4 (3 available)
...23305...(4)...Corculum cardissa Linne, 1758...47 to 50mm. F++. Nicely ribbed & with serrated margins...Philippines...$3 ea or $5 per contrasting pair (4 available)
sold...Corculum cardissa Linne, 1758....35 to 47 mm, F++. Pretty pastel tinted 3 piece sets showing a nice range of colours...Philippines...retained for photo
...29660...(1)...Corculum impressum Lightfoot, 1786....34 mm, F++. "Impressumive" specimen of the handsome yellow colour form, unusual for this species...Philippines...$6 (1 available)
...31451...(1)...Corculum impressum Lightfoot, 1786....35 mm. F++. So deformed to one side it can sit flat on the side & look a bit like limpet!...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
...23307...(2)...Corculum impressum Lightfoot, 1786...46 to 50mm. F++. Will sit flat on the ligament end it is so impressed...Philippines..$4 (2 available)
...23309...(1)...Corculum kirai Shikama, 1964...30 to 32mm. F++. Nice! Concentric bands of deep pink...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
...31449...(2sets)...Corculum - 3 species sets....20 to 24 mm, F+ high. Pretty little 3 piece sets, one each of Corculum cardissa, impressum and kirai, in shades of pastel pink and yellow...Philippines...$9/set (2 sets available)
sold...Dinocardium robustum fm. vanhyningi Clench & Smith, 1944...93 to 96mm. F++. Full, fat & fresh, with brown spotted ribs...Florida...retained for photo
...30640...(1)...Dinocardium robustum fm. vanhyningi Clench & Smith, 1944....90 mm, F++. Nicely brown spotted specimens with excellent margins...Florida...$4 (1 available)
...29518...(1)...Dinocardium robustum fm. vanhyningi Clench & Smith, 1944....109mm. F+. Nice big example, speckled with red-brown...Florida...$4 (1 available)
...24153...(1)...Dinocardium robustum vanhyningi Clench & Smith, 1944...89mm. F+. Elongate, with brown dashed ribs...Florida...$3 (1 available)
...14013...(2)...Fragum fragum Linne, 1758...30 - 35mm F++. White and triangular with scaled ribs..New Caledonia...$2 (2 available)
...23301...(sets)...Fragum hemicardium Linne, 1758...36 to 41mm. F++. Pretty 3 piece sets mottled in pink, orange & yellow...Philippines...$8/set (3 sets available)
...23302...(12)...Fragum hemicardium Linne, 1758...36 to 41mm. F++. Triangular pastel speckled singles. Halve a heart & buy one...Philippines...$3 (12 available)
...22057...(prs)...Fragum hemicardium Linne, 1758...33mm to 39mm. F++. Pairs, one pink tinted, the other yellow, both flecked with red...Philippines...$7/pair (4 prs. available)
...27123...(6pr)...Fragum hemicardium Linne, 1758....32 to 40mm. F++. Pretty 2 colour pairs, one with pink spots, the other with yellow tints...Philippines...$7/pair (6 pairs available)
...26787...(3)...Fragum unedo Linne, 1758....48 to 52mm. F++. Big, squarish white cockles with scattered pink rib scales...Australia...$5 (3 available)
...26788...(3)...Fragum unedo Linne, 1758....40 to 47mm. F++. Rectangular, with deep pink rib scales...Australia...$3 (3 available)
...24556...(3)...Fragum unedo Linne, 1758...42mm. F++. Nice example with pink rib scales...Philippines...$3 (3 available)
*...8017...(2)...Fragum unedo Linne, 1758 ...46.5, 45mm. Gem. Good data...Fiji...$3 (2 available)
...14241...(3)...Fragum unedo Linne, 1758...35mm. F++. White with pink riblets..Australia...$3 (3 available)
...8647...(1)...Fulvia aperta Brugiere, 1789...27mm. F++. Tan flecks on white..Japan...$6 (1 available)
...18711...(3)...Fulvia australis Sowerby, 1834...25 to 31 mm. F++. Feather light & brown mottled on white, they will provide you great delight.(like my Haiku?)...Australia...$5.50 (3 available)
sold...Laevicardium attenuatum Sowerby, 1840...84.5mm. F+/F++. WORLD RECORD SIZE!...India...retained for photo
...14158...(2)...Laevicardium attenuatum Sowerby, 1840...68mm. F+. Large!! Pastel yellow to orange & almost smooth...India...$7 (2 available)
*...8028.....(2)...Laevicardum attenuatum Sowerby, 1841...62mm. F++. Decent ones...India...$8 (2 available)
*...8029.....(2)...Laevicardum attenuatum Sowerby, 1841..57, 60mm. F++ Normal: an attractive species...India...$7 (2 available)
*...8027...(1)...Laevicardum attenuatum Sowerby, 1841...54mm. F+ high. normal..India..$5 (1 available)
*...8025...(2prs)...Laevicardum attenuatum Sowerby, 1841...51 - 45mm. F++. Contrast-pairs of a lovely species...India...$8 (2 pairs available)
...26841...(2)...Levicardium brasilianum Lamarck, 1819....34, 36mm. F+ solid. Jumbo specimens of this lightly mottled, nearly smooth egg cockle...Brazil...$12 (2 available)
*...8021...(1).....Laevicardum laevigatum Linne, 1758..43mm. F++. Pure White..Bahamas...$5 (1 available)
*...8022...(1pr)...Laevicardum laevigatum Linne, 1758..34, 32mm. F++. Pair, one is a TRUE ALBINO..Bahamas..$7/pair (1 pair available)
*...8020...(1set)...Laevicardum laevigatum Linne, 1758...29 - 25mm. F++. Good 3-sets...Bahamas..$5 (1 set available)
...28424...(1)...Lunulicardia hemicardia Linne, 1758....36mm. F++. Strongly keeled & liberally spotted in orange-pink...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
...27738...(1)...Lyrocardium lyratum Sowerby, 1840....42mm. F++. A favorite cockle (ok, one of MY favorites....), with angled ribs on one half & a deep red partial periostracum...Tanzania...$4 (1 available)
...14273...(sets)...Lyrocardium lyratum Sowerby, 1841....24 - 46 mm, F+ nicely. 3 piece growth series. Odd off-set ribs under dark red perio..Philippines...$12/set (1 set available)
...23465...(1)...Lyrocardium lyratum Sowerby, 1840...53mm. F++. Big specimen, with neat 2-way ribbing & deep red periostracum...Zanzibar...$7 (1 available)
...28223...(1)...Lyrocardium lyratum Sowerby, 1840....45mm. F++. Pastel orange mottled, with uniquely angled ribs...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
...26902...(1)...Lyrocardium lyratum Sowerby, 1840....51mm. F++. Oddly angled ridges on just one end, normal cockle ribs on the other half...Tanzania...$5 (1 available)
...23465..(1)...Lyrocardium lyratum Sowerby, 1840...53mm. F++. Big specimen, with neat 2-way ribbing & deep red periostracum...Zanzibar...$7 (1 available)
...31742...(1)...Nemocardium beechei Reeve, 1840....53 to 54 mm. F+. Huge specimens in bright orange & red, smooth except for spiny ribs at one end only...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
NEW...34624...(3)...Nemocardium exasperatum Sowerby, 1841....18 to 22mm. F++. Chubby little deep water cockle with highly spinous ribs...South China Sea...$12 (3 available)
...25625...(3)...Nemocardium exasperatum Sowerby, 1841....20 to 24mm. F+. Don't be exasperated by missing one of these spiny ribbed deep water cockles...South China Sea...$15 (3 available)
NEW...35365...(3)...Nemocardium pulchellum Gray, 1843....18 to 21mm. F++. Neat nearly ribless pink flushed deep water cockles...New Zealand...$5 (3 available)
NEW...35366...(1)...Nemocardium pulchellum Gray, 1843....22mm. F. Large but fresh dead examples...New Zealand...$4 (1 available)
NEW...35367...(4)...Nemocardium pulchellum Gray, 1843....19 to 26mm. F. Good single valves...New Zealand...$2 (4 available)
...12110...(1)...Nemocardium pulchellum Gray, 1843....10 - 14mm. f. Half grown tiny cockles, single valves...New Zealand...$3 for a "pseudopair" - right & left valves (1 available)
...26856...(1)...Papyridea soleniformis Bruguiere, 1789....34 mm. F++. Oblong, mottled in deep pink...Brazil...$3 (1 available)
sold...Plagiocardium pseudolima Lamarck, 1819....143 mm. F+. Huge example of this big cockle, with spined, pink tinted ribs. Big old thing is missing a few marginal teeth, otherwise excellent...Tanzania...retained for photo
...27693...(1)...Plagicardium pseudolima Lamark, 1819..52 5mm. F++.ALBINO..Zanzibar...$16 (1 available)
...16142...(1)...Trachycardium belcheri Broderip & Sowerby, 1829...26, 28 mm. F++. Globose & spiney with pastel orange & yellow..Panama...$10 (1 available)
*...8064.....(3)...Trachycardium cf egmontianum Shuttleworth, 1856..41, 43mm. gem-. Brown pattern...Florida...$3 (3 available)
...14014...(1)...Trachycardium egmontianum Shuttleworth, 1856...41mm. F+. Gray-brown with scaly ribs..Florida...$3 (1 available)
...22390...(1)...Trachycardium isocardia Linne, 1758....57+ mm, F++. Fantastically spiny specimens with purple-pink interior...Antigua...$7 (1 available)
...34062...(2)...Trachycardium manueli Prado, 1993....49, 55mm. F++. Pretty species, with spiny ribbed ends & scattering of pastel pink rib spots...Uruguay...$15 (2 available)
...14017...(2)...Trachycardium muricatum Linne, 1758...37, 43mm. F++. Albino form..Antigua...$5 (2 available)
...28719...(7)...Trachycardium
muricatum Linne, 1758....30
to 45mm. F+. Brown speckled cockles with scaly ribs...Venezuela...$4 for
2 of them (7 available)
...26869...(3)...Trachycardium muricatum Linne, 1758....46 to 50mm. F++. Good specimens, with rib scales like a wood rasp...Brazil...$4 (3 available)
NEW...34366...(1)...Trachycardium magnum Linne, 1758....47mm. F++. Pretty pink peppered speedy cockle (that would be Tachycardium)...Bahamas...$4 (1 available)
...26870...(3)...Trachycardium magnum Linne, 1758....33mm to 35mm. F++. Lightly mottled in pastel colours. Smaller specimens of this uncommon cockle...Brazil...$3 (3 available)
...8735...(4)...Trachycardium elongatum Bruguiere, 1789...68 - 41mm.F++. Pale pastel flecked cockles...SE India...$3 (4 available)
...23479...(1)...Trachycardium elongatum Bruguiere, 1789...82mm. F++. Big example, oval outline, tan coloured with white interior...Zanzibar...$5 (1 available)
...23480...(1)...Trachycardium cf. flavum Linne, 1758...55mm. F++. Curved ribs give it a squashed-to-one-side effect. Interesting!...Zanzibar...$4 (1 available)
*...8057...(5prs)...Trachycardium muricatum Linne, 1758...34 - 24mm. gem-. Beautiful pairs, one YELLOW! Fabulous DATA..Florida...$5 (5 prs available)
...31815...(3)...Trachcardium sp.....42 to 52 mm, F++. Pastel orange with yellow interior & spines on only a few posterior ribs....Thailand...$10 (3 available)
...23016...(1)...Vasticardium alternatum Sowerby, 1841..65.5.....F++. Quite nice. Philippines...$9 (1 available)
...18719...(1)...Vasticardium alternatum Sowerby, 1841...61mm. F++. Elongate oblong, white with light tan mottling...Australia...$8 (1 available)
...20234...(1)...Vasticardium assimile Reeve, 1844...70mm. F++. SUPER-GIANT!!!! May be a record ...Zanzibar...$18 (1 available)
...20686...(5)...Vasticardium assimile Reeve, 1844...37 to 52mm. F++. Plump ovals, with rib scales on one end...Tanzania...$8 (5 available)
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