Sydney cockle

Sydney cockle

Taxobox
name = "Anadara trapezia"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
subclassis = Pteriomorphia
ordo = Arcoida
superfamilia = Arcoidea
familia = Arcidae
genus = "Anadara"
species = "A. trapezia"
binomial = "Anadara trapezia"
binomial_authority = Deshayes, 1840

Sydney cockle (NSW), or ark cockle (Queensland), " Anadara trapezia", is an estuarine filter-feeding bivalve. Its calcareous, heavily-ribbed, shell can grow to approximately 7 to 8 cm across. Its current range is along the east coast of Australia, from Queensland to Victoria. It has previously existed in Western Australia, South Australia, and the coast of New Zealand during the Middle Holocene. It has been used as a bioindicator/indicator species to study levels of the metals selenium, copper and cadmium.

References and further reading

* Murray-Wallace, C.V., Beu, A.G., Kendrick, G.W., Brown, L.J., Belperio A.P. and Sherwood, J.E. (2000) "Palaeoclimatic implications of the occurrence of the arcoid bivalve 'Anadara trapezia' (Deshayes) in the Quaternary of Australasia". "Quaternary Science Reviews" 19 559-590
* Jolley, D. F., Maher, W. A. and Kyd, J. (2004) "Selenium accumulation in the cockle 'Anadara trapezia. "Environmental Pollution" 132:2"' 203-212


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