Cerastoderma glaucum, the lagoon cockle, is a species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae, the cockles.
This species is found along the coasts of Europe and North Africa, including the Mediterranean and Black Seas and the Caspian Sea, and the low-salinity Baltic Sea. It is a euryhaline species living in salinities 4-100 ‰.Russell PJ, Petersen GH (1973) The use of ecological data in the elucidation of some shallow water European Cardium species. Malacologia 14:223–232 In north-west Europe (including the British Isles), it typically does not live on open shores but rather in shallow burrows in saline lagoons, or sometimes on lower shores in estuaries. It cannot tolerate significant exposure to the air. The form found in lagoons is thinner-shelled than the estuarine populations. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
The lagoon cockle can grow to the length of 50 mm. In north-west Europe, it spawns in May–July, and the planktonic larval phase takes 11–30 days. The life span of the settled cockle is typically 2–5 years.
The species was described as Cardium glaucum in 1789 almost simultaneously both by Bruguière and by Poiret.
<div align=center> Cerastoderma glaucum Right and left valve of the same specimen:
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<div align=center> Cerastoderma glaucum lamarcki Right and left valve of the same specimen:
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