Tridacnidae
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Tridacninae, common name the giant clams, is a taxonomic subfamily of very large saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Cardiidae, the cockles.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassBivalvia
- OrderVenerida
- FamilyTridacnidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Tridacnidae
- Collections
- CAS, USNM, OMNH
- Recorded in
- Marshall Islands, French Polynesia, Philippines, Fiji, Guam, Indonesia
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Tridacninae, common name the giant clams, is a taxonomic subfamily of very large saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Cardiidae, the cockles.
==Description== This subfamily contains the largest living bivalve species, including Tridacna gigas, the giant clam. They have heavy shells, fluted with 4–6 folds. The mantle is usually brightly colored. They inhabit coral reefs in warm seas in the Indo-Pacific region. Most of these clams live in symbiosis with photosynthetic dinoflagellates (zooxanthellae), a type of photosymbiosis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tridacnidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.