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Acrosterigma cockle (no English common name)
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Photo: Manuel CABALLER / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (view on Wikimedia Commons)Preserved museum specimen. Shell photo (empty shell), not the living animal.

Acrosterigma cockle (no English common name)

Acrosterigma simplex

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 345693, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Acrosterigma cockle (no English common name)
Scientific
Acrosterigma simplex
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Clams and other bivalves
Family
Cardiidae (cockles and giant clams)
Depth and habitat
Sea floor (benthic), recorded from 1 to 52 m
IUCN status
NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)

Description

A cockle with a rounded, ribbed shell. It lives buried in sand in shallow water.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=3); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=6, 4 observers).

Sources

Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.