page_title: Pisidium casertanum
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Pisidium casertanum / Description
caption_attribution_description: Pisidium casertanum, freshwater bivalve species: presence in European countries based upon data from: Pisidium casertanum
context_page_description: Pisidium casertanum, the pea cockle or pea clam, is a minute freshwater bivalve mollusc of the family Sphaeriidae.
context_section_description: The shell is broad, sub-triangular or oval and is ornamented with sculpture of faint concentric striations. The umbos are slightly behind the middle. The Periostracum is silky, scarcely glossy. In colour it is whitish to grey-brown and often the shell is coated with reddish-brown deposits.
  The shell is of similar shape to Sphaerium novaezelandiae but is smaller as an adult, more inflated, with a deeper hinge-plate, stronger teeth, and the ligament is not visible externally.
  Length is up to 4.5 mm, height 3.7 mm, and thickness 2.3 mm.
caption: Pisidium casertanum Presence in European countries
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