Common names from other countries
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Sinh thái học
; Mức độ sâu 0 - 42 m (Ref. 117184). Tropical; 31°N - 32°S, 30°E - 124°W
Indo-Pacific: from East Africa to the Red Sea, (but not the Persian Gulf) to as far east as Pitcairn Islands, north to southern Japan, and south to Queensland, Australia and New Caledonia. Introduced in Hawaii and Guam.
Length at first maturity / Bộ gần gũi / Khối lượng (Trọng lượng) / Age
Maturity: Lm ?, range 16 - 20 cm Max length : 45.0 cm SHL con đực/không giới tính; (Ref. 95990); common length : 30.0 cm SHL con đực/không giới tính; (Ref. 348)
The species has an elongate shell with conspicuous fluted scales on its radial ridges. The valves are white and occasionally tinged with orange, and the mantle yellowish green.
Maximum depth from Ref. 87928. In eastern Polynesia, it is known to be restricted to deep water (Ref. 87928). Found in intertidal areas on corals (Ref. 75831). Abundant on outer reef slope (Ref. 2923). Also found in a lagoon (Ref. 87813), on sandy bottoms (Ref. 106695), rubble or in reef pockets (Ref. 2923). Unattached or weakly attached by byssus as an adult (Ref. 2923). Tridacnids derive their nutrition from uptake of dissolved matter through their epidermis and from their symbiotic zooanthella Symbiodinium microadriaticum (Ref. 107098).
Life cycle and mating behavior
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Life cycle: Embryos develop into free-swimming trocophore larvae, succeeded by the bivalve veliger, resembling a miniature clam (Ref. 833).
SAUP Database. 2006. (Ref. 356)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Human uses
Các nghề cá: Tính thương mại
FAO - Nuôi trồng thủy sản: Sản xuất; | FishSource | Biển chung quanh ta
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 25 - 29.3, mean 28.4 (based on 3457 cells).
Thích nghi nhanh
Trung bình, thời gian nhân đôi của chủng quần tối thiểu là 1.4 - 4.4 năm (K=0.08-0.23; tm=4).
Vulnerability
Moderate vulnerability (39 of 100).
Price category
Unknown.