Monodacna colorata, the colored egg cockle, colored lagoon cockle or Azov-Black Sea cockle, is a brackish and freshwater bivalve mollusc of the family Cardiidae. It has a broadly oval, rather thin, whitish, yellowish, pinkish-white, reddish-brown or grayish-lilac shell, up to 40 mm (1.6 in) in length, with oblique triangular ribs. The species is native to freshened areas and limans of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Since the 1950s it has been introduced into the reservoirs of the Dnieper, Manych, Don and Volga rivers, into the Volga Delta, the northern part of the Caspian Sea and some water bodies of Kazakhstan including the Lake Balkhash. M.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Coloured egg cockle being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
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Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Cardiida
- Family
- Cardiidae
- Genus
- Monodacna
- Species
- Monodacna colorata
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