30-463: Cockleshell may refer to: The shell of a cockle , an edible, marine bivalve mollusc Cockleshell Bay , a stop-motion children's television series The Cockleshell Heroes , a 1955 British Technicolor war film Lentinellus cochleatus (also aniseed cockleshell), a wood-inhabiting fungus Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
60-917: A permit from the Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority. Cockles are a street food in Cambodia where it is usually steamed or boiled and served with a dipping sauce consisting of crushed peppercorns, salt and lime juice. Cockles are sold freshly cooked as a snack in the United Kingdom , particularly in those parts of the British coastline where cockles are abundant. Boiled, then seasoned with malt vinegar and white pepper , they can be bought from seafood stalls, which also often have for sale mussels , whelks , jellied eels , crabs and shrimp . Cockles are also available pickled in jars, and more recently, have been sold in sealed packets (with vinegar) containing
90-626: A plastic two-pronged fork. A meal of cockles fried with bacon , served with laverbread , is known as a traditional Welsh breakfast . Boiled cockles (sometimes grilled) are sold at many hawker centres in Southeast Asia, and are used in laksa , char kway teow and steamboat . They are called kerang in Malay and see hum in Cantonese . In Japan, the Japanese egg cockle ( Laevicardium laevigatum )
120-468: A somewhat similar shape and sculpture, but are in other families such as the Veneridae (Venus clams) and the ark clams ( Arcidae ). Cockles in the family Cardiidae are sometimes referred to as "true cockles" to distinguish them from these other species. There are more than 205 living species of cockles, with many more fossil forms. The common cockle , (Cerastoderma edule) , is widely distributed around
150-451: Is an edible marine bivalve mollusc . Although many small edible bivalves are loosely called cockles, true cockles are species in the family Cardiidae . True cockles live in sandy, sheltered beaches throughout the world. The distinctive rounded shells are bilaterally symmetrical, and are heart -shaped when viewed from the end. Numerous radial, evenly spaced ribs are a feature of the shell in most but not all genera (for an exception, see
180-449: Is generally not eaten, although a process is being developed to solve this problem. The blood cockle, Tegillarca granosa (not related to the true cockles, instead in the ark clam family, Arcidae ) is extensively cultured from southern Korea to Malaysia . Living genera within the family Cardiidae include: Cockles are a popular type of edible shellfish in both Eastern and Western cooking . They are collected by raking them from
210-451: Is used to create torigai sushi. A study conducted in England in the early 1980s showed a correlation between the consumption of cockles, presumed to be incorrectly processed, and an elevated local occurrence of hepatitis . Cockles are an effective bait for a wide variety of sea fishes. The folk song " Molly Malone " is also known as "Cockles and Mussels" because the title character's sale of
240-815: The Isle of Man , the United Kingdom and Ireland are included in Western Europe , while Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania are included in Eastern Europe . The World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions is a biogeographical system developed by the international Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) organization, formerly the International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases. The WGSRPD standards, like other standards for data fields in botanical databases, were developed to promote "the wider and more effective dissemination of information about
270-489: The Isle of Man , the United Kingdom and Ireland are included in Western Europe . In the CIA World Factbook , the description of each country includes information about "Location" under the heading "Geography", where the country is classified into a region. The following countries are included in their classification "northern Europe": as well as the dependent areas: In this classification Jersey , Guernsey ,
300-703: The Nordic countries , often the British Isles and Baltic states , and sometimes Greenland . The United Nations geoscheme is a system devised by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) which divides the countries of the world into regional and subregional groups, based on the M49 coding classification . The partition is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories. In
330-730: The British Isles including the Brythonic Welsh and the Goidelic Scots Gaelic and Irish . The Celtic languages Cornish and Manx have been revived since becoming classed as extinct, being now spoken to a limited extent in Cornwall and the Isle of Man respectively. The Norman languages of Jèrriais and Guernésiais are spoken in Jersey and Guernsey, though are listed as endangered due to
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#1732855715644360-591: The UN geoscheme, the following countries are classified as being in northern Europe: as well as the dependent areas: EuroVoc is a multilingual thesaurus maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union , giving definitions of terms for official use. In the definition of "northern Europe", the following countries are included: as well as the dependent area: In this classification Jersey , Guernsey ,
390-692: The United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, however, the West Germanic language Scots is also spoken as a minority language in parts of Scotland and Ireland. Beyond this, the Finnic languages of Finnish and Estonian are the most common first languages of Finland and Estonia respectively. The Baltic languages of Lithuanian and Latvian are the most common first languages of Lithuania and Latvia respectively. A number of Celtic languages are spoken in
420-454: The coastlines of Northern Europe , with a range extending west to Ireland , the Barents Sea in the north, Norway in the east, and as far south as Senegal . The dog cockle , Glycymeris glycymeris , has a similar range and habitat to the common cockle, but is not at all closely related, being in the family Glycymerididae . The dog cockle is edible, but due to its toughness when cooked it
450-428: The foot, and feed by filtering plankton from the surrounding water. Cockles are capable of "jumping" by bending and straightening the foot. As is the case in many bivalves, cockles display gonochorism (the sex of an individual varies according to conditions), and some species reach maturity rapidly. The common name "cockle" is also given by seafood sellers to a number of other small, edible marine bivalves which have
480-419: The genus Laevicardium , the egg cockles, which have very smooth shells). The shell of a cockle is able to close completely (i.e., there is no "gap" at any point around the edge). Though the shell of a cockle may superficially resemble that of a scallop because of the ribs, cockles can be distinguished from scallops morphologically in that cockle shells lack "auricles" (triangular ear-shaped protrusions near
510-466: The highest standards of living in the world. They often score highly on surveys measuring quality of life, such as the Human Development Index . Aside from the United Kingdom, they generally have a small population relative to their size, most of whom live in cities. The quality of education in much of Northern Europe is rated highly in international rankings, with Estonia and Finland topping
540-416: The hinge line) and scallop shells lack a pallial sinus . Behaviorally, cockles live buried in sediment, whereas scallops either are free-living and will swim into the water column to avoid a predator, or in some cases live attached by a byssus to a substrate . The mantle has three apertures (inhalant, exhalant, and pedal) for siphoning water and for the foot to protrude. Cockles typically burrow using
570-605: The increasing prominence of English in the islands. While not the most common first languages in any country, Sámi languages such as North Sámi , Lule Sámi and South Sámi are spoken in the transnational region of Sápmi and are listed as endangered. During the Early Middle Ages , the Roman Catholic Church expanded into northern Europe and spread Christianity among the Germanic peoples . Christianity reached
600-565: The list among the OECD countries in Europe. Germanic languages are widely spoken in northern Europe with North Germanic languages being the most common first language in the Faroe Islands ( Faroese ), Iceland ( Icelandic ), Denmark ( Danish ), Norway ( Norwegian ) and Sweden ( Swedish ). The West Germanic language English is the most common first language in Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man,
630-604: The mountainous western seaboard, Scotland and Scandinavia , and also often includes part of the large plain east of the Baltic Sea . The entire region's climate is at least mildly affected by the Gulf Stream . From the west climates vary from maritime and maritime subarctic climates. In the north and central climates are generally subarctic or Arctic and to the east climates are mostly subarctic and temperate / continental . Just as both climate and relief are variable across
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#1732855715644660-610: The peninsula of Jutland , the Baltic plain that lies to the east, and the many islands that lie offshore from mainland northern Europe and the main European continent. In some cases, Greenland is also included, although it is only politically European, comprising part of the Kingdom of Denmark , and not considered to be geographically in Europe. The area is partly mountainous, including the northern volcanic islands of Iceland and Jan Mayen , and
690-433: The peoples of Scandinavia and the Baltic region in later centuries. The Latin alphabet along with the influence of Western Christianity spread northward from Rome , leading to written English , German , Dutch , Danish , Norwegian , Swedish , Icelandic , Latvian , Lithuanian , Estonian , Finnish and Sámi languages . The Sámi were the last peoples to be converted in the 18th century. The Hansa group in
720-694: The perceived heart-shape of a cockleshell, or indirectly (the scientific name for the type genus of the family is Cardium , from the Latin for heart), or from the Latin diminutive of the word heart, corculum. Another proposed derivation is from the Latin for the ventricles of the heart, cochleae cordis , where the second word is an inflected form of cor , heart, while cochlea is the Latin for snail. [REDACTED] Media related to Cardiidae at Wikimedia Commons Northern Europe The northern region of Europe has several definitions. A restrictive definition may describe northern Europe as being roughly north of
750-475: The region, so too is vegetation, with sparse tundra in the north and high mountains, boreal forest on the north-eastern and central regions temperate coniferous forests (formerly of which a majority was in the Scottish Highlands and south west Norway ) and temperate broadleaf forests growing in the south, west and temperate east. There are various definitions of northern Europe which always include
780-484: The sands at low tide. However, collecting cockles is hard work and, as seen from the Morecambe Bay disaster , in which 23 people died, can be dangerous if local tidal conditions are not carefully watched. In England and Wales, as of 2011 , people are permitted to collect 5 kg of cockles for personal use. Those wishing to collect more than this are deemed to be engaging in commercial fishing and are required to obtain
810-401: The southern coast of the Baltic Sea , which is about 54°N , or may be based on other geographical factors such as climate and ecology . The climate is mainly Oceanic climate (Cfb), Humid continental climate (Dfb), Subarctic climate (Dfc and Dsc) and Tundra (ET). Northern Europe might be defined roughly to include some or all of the following areas: British Isles , Fennoscandia ,
840-484: The title Cockleshell . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cockleshell&oldid=1059719099 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cockle (bivalve) Lymnocardiidae A cockle
870-492: The two foods is referred to in the song's refrain. The shells of cockles are mentioned in the English nursery rhyme " Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary ". Cockles are also eaten by the indigenous peoples of North America. The common English phrase " it warms the cockles of my heart ", is used to mean that a feeling of deep-seated contentment has been generated. Differing derivations of this phrase have been proposed, either directly from
900-452: The world's heritage of biological organisms for the benefit of the world at large". The system provides clear definitions and codes for recording plant distributions at four scales or levels, from "botanical continents" down to parts of large countries. The following countries are included in their classification of "northern Europe": as well as the dependent areas: Countries in northern Europe generally have developed economies and some of
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