| Venus verrucosa Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Shetland to S. Africa, to S. Mozambique; Azores to Mediterranean. In rough sands, gravels and detritic bottoms, subtidal to shallow shelf ( DORIS). Suspension feeder. Above: the species in G. P. Deshayes: “Hist. Nat. Mollusques t. I”, Exploration scientifique de l’Algérie, Paris 1844-1867, via BHL. |
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Synonyms: strigatus da Costa, subcordata Montagu.
9m deep, Vouliagmeni marine lake, west of Perachora, Loutraki area, N. Korinthia, Greece. 44,5mm. |
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| At low tide on exposed mud flat, ilha de Faro, Algarve, S. Portugal. 44,5-45,5mm. |
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The small one comes from Poetto beach, Cagliari, S. Sardinia. 31mm. It is flat, typically mediterranean. The two large rounded specimens were collected at extreme low tide, burrowed in muddy sandy banks covered with young Himanthalia elongata (L.) S.F. Gray, 1821. Pointe du Chevet, Saint Jacut de la Mer, N. Brittany, NW. France. 43-49mm. |
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| Globose specimen from 20-30m deep, on sand, Málaga, Andalucia, S. Spain. 56mm. Original picture provided by Y. Mollaoğlu (TR) – (CC BY-NC-SA). |
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Venus verrucosa in T. Brown: Illustrations of the recent conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, London 1844.
« Whole surface covered with strong, elevated, transverse, varicose, concentrically striated ribs ; the warts being larger, and more elevated on the posterior side ; all the intervening furrows with broad, wide-set, longitudinal striae, giving the shell a very rugose aspect ; […] In the young condition, the ridges are more perfect than in the adult, with the interstices finely crenulated. » |
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| A pretty young shell from Western Sahara: 2m deep, in sand, Oued Ed-Dahab-Lagouira (Rio de Oro). 25mm. |
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| Large and heavy specimen (35g – 1,23oz) trawled off Groix island, S. Brittany. 55mm. |
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The species in E. Donovan: The natural history of British shells, vol. II, London 1800, plate XLIV.
« Da Costa says: “this species is rare in ours seas. The shores of Cornwall afford them, and they have been got in Devonshire and Dortsetshire.” They have also beeen found on the eastern coast of Sussex, but not frequently. » |
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| 15-25m deep, Gulf of Morbihan, S. Brittany. 50-54mm. |
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| Venus verrucosa in J. G. Hidalgo: Moluscos marinos de España, Portugal y las Baleares, Madrid 1870, via BHL. |
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| 8m deep, Bozcaada island, Çanakkale, W. Marmara, NW. Turkey. 4mm. These juveniles are rather flat. |