Species Detail - Prickly Cockle (Acanthocardia echinata) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Irish Lagoon Surveys".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Acanthocardia echinata
Prickly Cockle
NBNSYS0000173548
RecommendedUnverified
N/A
acech
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Mollusc
Species
1
1
1
01/07/2016
31/10/2016
3 January (recorded in 2023)
30 December (recorded in 2019)
Geoff Oliver and Eddie McCormack, Irish Lagoon Surveys, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Prickly Cockle (Acanthocardia echinata), accessed 19 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/303/Species/120324