Common names from other countries
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Écologie
; profondeur 1 - 15 m (Ref. 348). Tropical
Indo-Pacific: from East Africa, to Melanesia; north to Japan and south to Queensland.
Length at first maturity / Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
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
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
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.
Poutiers, J.M. 1998. (Ref. 348)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435)
statut CITES (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Menace pour l'homme
Harmless
Utilisations par l'homme
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Outils
Plus d'informations
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 24.7 - 29.3, mean 28.5 (based on 3422 cells).
Catégorie de prix
Unknown.