The colour is whitish, cream or pale yellow, sometimes shiny, and usually with three red-brown radiating rays.

[3] Chamelea gallina occurs on Eastern Atlantic coasts, from Norway and the British Isles, Portugal, Morocco, Madeira and the Canary Islands.

[3] Chamelea gallina lives under the surface of clean and muddy sand at a depth of between five and twenty metres.

Two years later, the sanctions started to include a fine up to a maximum of 4,000 euros,[5] besides to the seizure of the catch and the closure of the activity.

[5] Against an intensive lobbying activity of the Spanish deputies at the European Parliament, in June 2016 the Italian parties reached a temporary triennal exception to the limit, in order to avoid the crisis of the ittic sector and to protect an Italian typical production.

[13] Italian organizations are pressing to the EU Parliament to concede a new dispensation form the limit of 25 millimeters.