Common names from other countries
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologie
; brakwater. Tropical
Indo-West Pacific: from India to Vanuatu; north to southern islands of Japan, and south to Queensland and New Caledonia.
Length at first maturity / Size / Gewicht / Leeftijd
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 10.5 cm SHL mannelijk/geslacht niet bekend; (Ref. 348); common length : 7.0 cm SHL mannelijk/geslacht niet bekend; (Ref. 348)
Widely collected as food in Asia (Ref. 348). Found in intertidal areas in mangrove mud (Ref. 75831, 85174). Also in fresh and brackish waters of mangrove swamps, estuaries, and larger rivers. Highly tolerant to surface desiccation of its habitat; can survive by aerial respiration at the posterior mantle margin for a period of a few days, and feed from subterranean water by means of water exchange through a narrow anterior gape of valves (Ref. 345).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Geslachtsrijpheid | Voortplanting | Kuitschieten | Eieren | Fecundity | Larven
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)
Status op de Rode Lijst van het IUCN (Ref. 130435)
Status bij CITES (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Gevaarlijk voor mensen
Harmless
Gebruik door de mens
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Estimates based on models
Weerstandsvermogen
Hoog, minimale populatieverdubbelingstijd minder dan 15 maanden (K=0.76).
Kwetsbaarheid
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Prijsklasse
Unknown.