Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Trachycardium consors
berberecho espinoso, Prickly cockle
Length: 60 mm; height: 54 mm; diameter: 50 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), intertidal, sand banks, 45 m depth
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Cardiida
Superfamily
Cardioidea
Family
Cardiidae
Genus
Trachycardium
Species
consors
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cardium laxum Dall, 1901, ANSP: 154911, CAS: 27255
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Gulf of California to Ecuador including Galapagos Islands.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 pp.
- Fischer, W. Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Vol. I. Plantas e Invertebrados. FAO, Roma, 646 pp.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Trachycardium consors", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8620. Accessed 14 May 2025.