Arcinella arcinella (Linnaeus, 1767)

Spiny jewelbox

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

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Arcinella arcinella AquaMaps Data sources: GBIF OBIS

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Classification / Names आम नाम | उपशब्द | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Bivalvia | Venerida | Chamidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / गहराई सीमा / distribution range पारिस्थितिकी

; गहराई सीमा 2 - 73 m (संदर्भ 83435). Tropical

Distribution देश | ऐफ ऐ ओ क्षेत्र | Ecosystems | संयोग | भूमिका

Western Atlantic: Caribbean Sea, from Florida to Brazil.

Length at first maturity / आकार / Weight / Age

परिपक्व अवधि: L_m ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 5.3 cm DL पुल्लिंग / अलिंग; (संदर्भ 83435); common length : 5.1 cm SHL पुल्लिंग / अलिंग; (संदर्भ 360)

Short description आकृति विज्ञान

Shell: convex valves, slightly inequivalved and inequilateral; coloration is cream or delicately pink; sculpture consists of a score of radialribs decorated with spines whose breadth progressively increases from the umbo to the ventral margin of the valve; between the ribs are small granulations, irregularly arranged; lunule is very differentiated and heart-shaped; ligament is external, hinge is pachyodont; two large muscle scars (posterior is bigger than the anterior; dimyarian, anisomyarian), pallial line is continuous with no sinus. Body: foot is reduced to keep with its sedentary life; mantle cavity has a pair of gills, each with two series of lamellae, extensively fused by interlamellar junctions (eulamellibranch).

Life cycle and mating behavior परिपक्व अवधि | पुनरुत्पत्ति | मछलीऔ का अंडे देना | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

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.