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Malleus malleus   (Linnaeus, 1758)

Black hammer oyster

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Malleus malleus

Solomon Islands country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: never/rarely | Ref:
Regulations: no regulations | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments:
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/bp.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.spc.org.nc/coastfish/Countries/solomons/solomons.htm
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Poutiers, J.M., 1998
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Brown common hammer oyster, ... more

Classification / Names / Names Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Ostreida () > Malleidae (hammer oysters)

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

; distribuzione batimetrica 1 - 15 m (Ref. 348).   Tropical

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Introduzioni

Indo-Pacific: from East Africa, to Melanesia; north to Japan and south to Queensland.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Byssally attached to hard objects, on reef flats, coarse coral sand or eelgrass areas. The shell is vertically disposed and partly buried in sediment, with the long dorsal ears acting as an anchor and the ventral quarter of valves exposed. Sublittoral. Often occurring in large colonies (Ref. 348).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

Members of the class Bivalvia are mostly gonochoric, some are protandric hermaphrodites. Life cycle: Embryos develop into free-swimming trocophore larvae, succeeded by the bivalve veliger, resembling a miniature clam.

Main reference Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

Poutiers, J.M. 1998. (Ref. 348)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

Human uses


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Strumenti

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Fonti Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, ricerca) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 24.7 - 29.3, mean 28.5 (based on 3422 cells).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.