Common names from other countries
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
; intervalo de profundidade 0 - 20 m (Ref. 348), usually 0 - 20 m (Ref. 75831). Tropical
Indo-Pacific: from East Africa, including Madagascar and the Red Sea, to eastern Polynesia; north to Japan and Hawaii, and south to Queensland.
Length at first maturity / Tamanho / Peso / Idade
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 6.0 cm SHL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 348); common length : 5.0 cm SHL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 348)
Found in intertidal areas in coarse sand and coral fragments (Ref. 75831). Also inhabits silty and gravely sands in the upper intertidal, where it is usually buried at 20 to 30 cm in depth (Ref. 65033).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas
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.
Bisby, F.A., M.A. Ruggiero, K.L. Wilson, M. Cachuela-Palacio, S.W. Kimani, Y.R. Roskov, A. Soulier-Perkins and J. van Hertum. 2005. (Ref. 19)
Status na Lista Vermelha da IUCN (Ref. 130435)
Status no CITES (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Uso pelos humanos
Pescarias: pescarias de subsistência
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Ferramentas
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Fontes da internet
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 24.6 - 29.1, mean 28 (based on 1238 cells).
Resiliência
Elevada, tempo mínimo de duplicação da população menor que 15 meses (K=0.58).
Vulnerabilidade
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Categoria de preço
Unknown.