The Common Piddock (Pholas Dactylus)

• Wild About Cumbria
• 18th April 2018
• Cumbria Guide

By Mark Vollers This bivalve  mollusc, a type of clam, is remarkable not only because of its lifestyle but also where it has left evidence of its presence in the Solway Firth. nitially it’s free swimming offspring (larvae) live on rock surfaces like mussels, but they soon start to bore into the rock by making […]

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