Species Detail - Prickly Cockle (Acanthocardia echinata) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Explore Your Shore".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Acanthocardia echinata
Prickly Cockle
NBNSYS0000173548 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
acech
(Linnaeus, 1758)
mollusc
Species
67
23
16
24/06/2019
20/12/2024
3 January (recorded in 2023)
30 December (recorded in 2019)
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Explore Your Shore, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Prickly Cockle (Acanthocardia echinata), accessed 26 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/305/Species/120324>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)