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- Giant_clam abstract "The giant clam (Tridacna gigas), known as pā’ua in Cook Islands Māori, is a clam that is the largest living bivalve mollusk.Tridacna gigas is one of the most endangered clam species. Antonio Pigafetta documented these in his journal as early as 1521. One of a number of large clam species native to the shallow coral reefs of the South Pacific and Indian oceans, they can weigh more than 200 kilograms (440 lb), measure as much as 120 cm (47 in) across, and have an average lifespan in the wild of over 100 years. They are also found off the shores of the Philippines, where they are called "taklobo", and in the South China Sea in the coral reefs of Sabah (Malaysia'n Borneo). Tridacna gigas lives in flat coral sand or broken coral and can be found at depths of as much as 20 m (66 ft). Its range covers the Indo-Pacific, but populations are diminishing quickly and the giant clam has become extinct in many areas where it was once common. Tridacna maxma has the largest geographical distribution among giant clam species; it can be found off high- or low-elevation islands, in lagoons or fringing reefs. Its rapid growth rate is likely due to its ability to cultivate algae in its body tissue.Although larval clams are planktonic, they become sessile in adulthood. The creature's mantle tissues act as a habitat for the symbiotic single-celled dinoflagellate algae (zooxanthellae) from which the adult clams get most of their nutrition. By day, the clam opens its shell and extends its mantle tissue so that the algae receive the sunlight they need to photosynthesize.".
- Giant_clam binomialAuthority Carl_Linnaeus.
- Giant_clam class Bivalvia.
- Giant_clam class Euheterodonta.
- Giant_clam class Heterodonta.
- Giant_clam conservationStatus "VU".
- Giant_clam conservationStatusSystem "iucn2.3".
- Giant_clam family Cockle_(bivalve).
- Giant_clam family Tridacninae.
- Giant_clam genus Tridacna.
- Giant_clam genus Tridacna_(Tridacna).
- Giant_clam kingdom Animal.
- Giant_clam order Veneroida.
- Giant_clam phylum Mollusca.
- Giant_clam synonym "Chama gigantea (Perry, 1811)".
- Giant_clam thumbnail Giant_clam_black&white_komodo.jpg?width=300.
- Giant_clam wikiPageExternalLink Tridacna_gigas.html.
- Giant_clam wikiPageExternalLink books?id=98zeNrvTWuEC&printsec=frontcover.
- Giant_clam wikiPageExternalLink index.php?rubrique=accueil&lang=en.
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- Giant_clam wikiPageExternalLink solarclams.html.
- Giant_clam wikiPageExternalLink Webpg%20Mariculture%20Research.htm.
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- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Aquaculture.
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- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Bivalve.
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- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Calcium_carbonate.
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- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Cardiidae.
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- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Category:Animals_described_in_1758.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Category:Megafauna.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Category:Tridacna.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Cerebrum.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Chemoreceptor.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Chemoreceptors.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Chinese_medicine.
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- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Dayak_people.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Dinoflagellate.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Dyak_people.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink East_Timor.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Egg.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Egg_(biology).
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- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Fort_Pierce,_Florida.
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- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Heterodonta.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink IUCN.
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- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Indian_Ocean.
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- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink International_Union_for_Conservation_of_Nature.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Ishigaki_Island.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink James_Cook_University.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Juvenile_(organism).
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Komodo_National_Park.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Lagoon.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Larva.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Lunar_phase.
- Giant_clam wikiPageWikiLink Malaysia.