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Hippopus porcellanus   Rosewater, 1982

China 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

.   Tropical; 23°C - 30°C (Ref. 102835); 13°N - 9°S, 109°E - 139°E (Ref. 106696)

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Introduzioni

Western Central Pacific: Restricted in the tropical western Pacific. From Sabah, Malaysia to Palau, north to Philippines and south to Indonesia.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 41.1 cm SHL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 117184); common length : 20.0 cm SHL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 348)

Short description Morfologia

Its shell is thinner and smoother than that of H. hippopus, usually devoid of pigmentation, and more semi-circular in profile. The mantle is similar to that of H. hippopus (Rosewater, 1982), except that prominent papillae line the margins of the incurrent siphon.

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Collected for food and shell (Ref. 348).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

Broadcast spawners. 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

Poutiers, J.M. 1998. (Ref. 348)

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

Threat to humans

  Harmless

Human uses

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

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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

Resilienza (Ref. 69278) Basso, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 4.5 - 14 anni (K=0.13).
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Moderate to high vulnerability (51 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.