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Tridacna squamosa   Lamarck, 1819

Fluted giant clam

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Common names: [No common name]
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Uses: no uses
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Common names from other countries

Classification / Names / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Cardiida () > Cardiidae (cockles)

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

; rango de profundidad 0 - 42 m (Ref. 117184).   Tropical; 31°N - 32°S, 30°E - 124°W

Distribución Países | Áreas FAO | Ecosistemas | Ocurrencias, apariciones | Introducciones

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 / Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?, range 16 - 20 cm Max length : 45.0 cm SHL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 95990); common length : 30.0 cm SHL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 348)

Short description Morfología

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.

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Maximum depth from Ref. 87928.

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

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

Main reference Referencias | Coordinador | Colaboradores

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)


CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Human uses

Pesquerías: comercial
FAO - Acuicultura: producción; | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Nombres comunes
Sinónimos
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Madurez
Puesta
Fecundidad
Huevos
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Age/Size
Crecimiento
Length-weight
Length-length
Morfología
Larva
Abundancia
Referencias
Mass conversion

Fuentes de Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(; publication : search) | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Árbol de la vida | Wikipedia (Go, búsqueda) | Expediente Zoológico

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 25 - 29.3, mean 28.4 (based on 3457 cells).
Resiliencia (Ref. 69278) Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (K=0.08-0.23; tm=4).
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Moderate to high vulnerability (50 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.