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Tridacna maxima   (Röding, 1798)

Elongate giant clam

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Tridacna maxima

Lord Howe Island 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: ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Howe_Islan
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Poutiers, J.M., 1998
National Database:

Common names from other countries

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Classification / Names / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

Bivalvia > Cardiida () > Cardiidae (cockles)

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

Reef-associated; non-migratory (Ref. 348); brackish; depth range 0 - 35 m (Ref. 348).   Tropical; 23°C - 30°C (Ref. 102835); 28°N - 37°S, 31°E - 128°W

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Indo-Pacific: Egypt to Pitcairn Islands and Ogasawara, Japan to Lord Howe Island.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?, range 6 - 13 cm Max length : 41.7 cm SHL male/unsexed; (Ref. 117184); common length : 25.0 cm SHL male/unsexed; (Ref. 348)

Short description Morphology

The mantle color is highly variable, ranging from bright blue to brown.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Collected for food and for the shell trade. Aquaculture trials have been done in 1998 (Ref. 348). Maximum depth from Ref. 75831.

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Life cycle: Embryos develop into free-swimming trocophore larvae, succeeded by the bivalve veliger, resembling a miniature clam (Ref. 833).

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

SAUP Database. 2006. (Ref. 356)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

  Lower Risk: conservation dependent (LR/cd) ; Date assessed: 01 August 1996

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Appendix II: International trade monitored

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Reports of ciguatera poisoning (Ref. 130160)

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
FAO - Aquaculture: production; | FishSource | Sea Around Us

Tools

E-book | Field guide

Internet sources

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

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 24.8 - 29.3, mean 28.4 (based on 3421 cells).
Resilience (Ref. 69278) Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.18-0.28; tm=3.8).
Prior r = 0.49, 95% CL = 0.32 - 0.73, Based on 1 data-limited stock assessment.
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Moderate to high vulnerability (45 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.