Bivalvia |
Venerida |
Chamidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Benthic; depth range 2 - 73 m (Ref. 83435). Tropical
Western Atlantic: Caribbean Sea, from Florida to Brazil.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 5.3 cm DL male/unsexed; (Ref. 83435); common length : 5.1 cm SHL male/unsexed; (Ref. 360)
Shell: convex valves, slightly inequivalved and inequilateral; coloration is cream or delicately pink; sculpture consists of a score of radialribs decorated with spines whose breadth progressively increases from the umbo to the ventral margin of the valve; between the ribs are small granulations, irregularly arranged; lunule is very differentiated and heart-shaped; ligament is external, hinge is pachyodont; two large muscle scars (posterior is bigger than the anterior; dimyarian, anisomyarian), pallial line is continuous with no sinus. Body: foot is reduced to keep with its sedentary life; mantle cavity has a pair of gills, each with two series of lamellae, extensively fused by interlamellar junctions (eulamellibranch).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | 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.
Sabelli, B. and H.S. Feinberg (eds.) 1879 Simon and Schuster's Guide to Shells. Simon and Schuster's Inc. New York. 512 pp. (Ref. 360)
IUCN Red List Status
(Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Human uses
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Trophic EcologyFood items (preys)
Diet composition
Food consumption
Predators
Population dynamicsGrowth
Max. ages / sizes
Length-weight rel.
Length-length rel.
Length-frequencies
Mass conversion
Abundance
Life cycleReproductionMaturityFecunditySpawningEggsEgg developmentLarvae PhysiologyOxygen consumption
Human RelatedStamps, coins, misc.
Internet sources
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 23.9 - 28, mean 26.7 (based on 214 cells).
Fishing Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category
Unknown.
