Arctica islandica, Ocean quahog : fisheries

Arctica islandica   (Linnaeus, 1767)

Ocean quahog

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Classification / Names প্রচলিত নাম সমূহ | প্রতিনাম সমূহ | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Bivalvia | Venerida | Arcticidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / গভীরতার পরিসীমা / distribution range বাস্তুসংস্থান

; গভীরতার পরিসীমা 0 - 482 m (সূত্র 88171).  Temperate, preferred 7°C (সূত্র 107945); 77°N - 35°N, 120°W - 45°E

Distribution দেশ সমূহ | এফ এ ও এলাকাসমূহ | বাস্তুতন্ত্র | দৃষ্টিগোচর | প্রচলন

Northern Atlantic and the Arctic: from Bay of Cadiz Spain, north to Iceland, and from Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, USA to the Canadian Arctic. Subtropical to polar.

Length at first maturity / আকৃতি / Weight / Age

পরিপক্কতা : Lm ?, range 2 - 4.1 cm Max length : 13.0 cm SHL পুরুষ/ লিঙ্গ অনিধর্ারিত ; (সূত্র 88171); common length : 7.6 cm SHL পুরুষ/ লিঙ্গ অনিধর্ারিত ; (সূত্র 360)

Short description বহিঃ অঙ্গ সংস্থান

Shell: moderately swollen, thick and robust valves, almost circular, equivalved and inequilateral; has a thick dark brown to blackish periostracum; sculpture consists of thin concentric grooves; well-developed external ligament, reaching the end of the posterior margin of the valve, posterior to the umbones; hinge is heterodont, right and left valves each has three cardinal teeth, anterior and posterior lateral teeth; inside the valves are two slightly different muscle scars (dimyarian, anisomyarian), linked by a continuous pallial line (integropalliate), without a sinus; crossed-lamellae structure. Body: pair of gills each consists of two series of lamellae extensively linked by interlamellar junctions (eulamellibranch); foot is large and the two mantle lobes fuse to form two stout siphons.

জীববিজ্ঞান     শব্দকোষ (উদাহরণ স্বরূপ epibenthic)

Minimum depth from Ref. 7726. Maximum shell height at 13 cm (anterior-posterior: from the whorl to opposite shell edge) in the Northeast Atlantic. Considered one of the slowest growing clam species in the world and extremely long-lived with an age record of 374 years. As an endobenthic species, population threats include anthropogenic factors such as mechanical damage, oxygen deficiency/eutrophication, unintentional habitat dislocation, temperature and osmotic stress brought by climate change, and, on a major scale, increased trawl fishery in the North Atlantic (Ref. 88171). Prefer a temperature range of 1° to 18°C and, although found in brackish waters with salinity levels of 14 and higher, is intolerant of salinities below 10. Found in both shallow and deep waters with preferred depth range between 10 and 280 m. Having a short siphon, it buries shallow beneath the surface, in gravelly, sandy to muddy sediments, and sapropels but preferentially in fine, silty sediment. Maintains a stationary position once it has settled onto the substrate. May burrow below the sediment surface possibly to escape predators or to conserve energy by going into this anaerobic phase which can last up to 7 days. A suspension and detritus feeder on fresh organic matter; filters phytoplankton and able to pick up food particles from the seabed with the tentacles on the end of its siphon, it being a suspension feeder. Dioecious with reproduction continuous throughout the year. Late sexual maturity, at around 5 to 11 years, make its population sensitive to disturbance (Ref. 88171).

Life cycle and mating behavior পরিপক্কতা | প্রজনন | ডিম ছাড়া | Eggs | ডিম্বধারন ক্ষমতা | 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.

Main reference সূত্র সংখ্যা | সমম্বয়কারী | সহযোগী

Harvey-Clark, C. 1997. (সূত্র 7726)

IUCN Red List Status (সূত্র 130435: Version 2024-2)


CITES status (সূত্র 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (সূত্র 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

মৎস্য: বাণিজ্যিক
FAO - মৎস্য: landings, species profile | FishSource | আমাদের চতুর্পাশ্বের সাগর

হাতিয়ার

আরো তথ্য

ট্রফিক বাস্তুতন্ত্র
Food items (preys)
পথ্য উপাদান
খাদ্য গ্রহণ
শিকারী প্রাণী সমূহ
বাস্তুসংস্থান
Life cycle
প্রজনন
পরিপক্কতা
ডিম্বধারন ক্ষমতা
ডিম ছাড়া
Eggs
Egg development
Larvae
Physiology
অম্লজান ব্যবহার

ইন্টারনেট সুত্র

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(মৎস্য: species profile; publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | জীবন বৃক্ষ | Wikipedia (Go, অনুসন্ধান ) | জুলজিকাল রেকর্ড

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 6.6 - 10.9, mean 9.8 (based on 204 cells).
স্থিতিস্থাপক (Ref. 69278): নিম্ন/ , সর্বনিম্ন প্রজন দ্বিগুনের সময় ৪.৪-১৪ বৎসর (K=0.02-0.2; tm=4.5).
Prior r = 0.47, 95% CL = 0.31 - 0.70, Based on 1 full stock assessment.
Fishing Vulnerability (সূত্র 71543): High vulnerability (56 of 100).
Climate Vulnerability (সূত্র 125649): High to very high vulnerability (66 of 100).
Price category (সূত্র 80766): Low.
Nutrients :  Calcium = 149 [71, 228] mg/100g; Iron = 8.53 [1.95, 15.11] mg/100g; Protein = 9.88 [8.64, 11.12] %; Omega3 = 0.313 [0.202, 0.423] g/100g; Selenium = 61 [50, 72] μg/100g; VitaminA = 0 μg/100g; Zinc = 2.04 [0.56, 3.51] mg/100g (wet weight); based on nutrient studies.