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Tridacna maxima   (Röding, 1798)

Elongate giant clam

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names / Names Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Cardiida () > Cardiidae (cockles)

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

Associati a barriera corallina; non migratori (Ref. 348); salmastro; distribuzione batimetrica 0 - 35 m (Ref. 348).   Tropical; 23°C - 30°C (Ref. 102835); 28°N - 37°S, 31°E - 128°W

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Introduzioni

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

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

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

Short description Morfologia

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

Biologia     Glossario (es. 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 Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

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

Main reference Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

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

Pesca: commerciale
FAO - Acquacoltura: production; | FishSource | Sea Around Us

Strumenti

E-book | Giuda pratica

Fonti Internet

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

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 24.8 - 29.3, mean 28.4 (based on 3421 cells).
Resilienza (Ref. 69278) Medio, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 1.4 - 4.4 anni (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.