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The giant clam , Tridacna gigas , or traditionally, pa’ua , is the largest living bivalve mollusk. One of a number of large clam species native to the shallow coral reefs of the South Pacific an...
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Learn all you wanted to know about giant clams with pictures, videos, photos, facts, and news from National Geographic. ... Giant clams achieve their enormous proportions by consuming the sugars and proteins produced by the billions of algae that live in their tissues.
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Information about the Giant Squid. ... Monsters of the Deep; Flash Movie © Occultopedia ... Further info: Giant Clam. Giant Clam (encyclopedia.com). Tridacna gigas.
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Giant clam (Tridacna gigas) on ARKive - species information, 10 images and 2 videos ... Like all bivalve molluscs, the shell consists of two valves, although in the larger giant clams these cannot close ... Giant clam, showing inhalent and exhalent siphons...
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Giant clams have large, colorful mantles inhabited by dense populations of symbiotic dinoflagellate algae called zooxanthellae. The clams extend their mantles to capture light for photosynthesis by their algal symbionts. ... Giant clams are commonly eaten by humans in the Indo-Pacific region, and overcollecting by...
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We have two native species of giant clams in our local waters, Tridacna maxima and T. squamosa, which look fairly similar. They grow to about 12-15 inches in shell length, although most found today are smaller because the larger ones have been over-harvested.
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The long necks protruding from a geoduck's giant shell have led some to believe that the world's largest burrowing clam is an aphrodisiac. Whether or not that is true, the sea creature may offer another—albeit less sexy—benefit for humanity, according to new research.
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Giant clams two feet long might have helped feed prehistoric humans as they first migrated out of Africa. ... The species, Tridacna costata, once accounted for more than 80 percent of giant clams in the Red Sea, researcher now say. Today, these mollusks, the first new living species of giant clam found in two decades,
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