Tridacna gigas

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biological resource of Pacific Ocean

TITLE: Pacific Ocean
SECTION: Biological resources

...between the Pacific and the Indian oceans have also given the latter ocean a rich reef fauna; Indo-Pacific mollusks have reached copious evolutionary diversification, with the giant clam, Tridacna gigas, a spectacular example. Another example of the Pacific’s richness in species is found among the tunas: six species (one of them endemic) roam the tropical reaches of the Pacific,...

TITLE: clam (mollusk)

The size of clams ranges from 0.1 mm (0.004 inch) in Condylocardia to 1.2 m across in the giant clam (Tridacna gigas) of the Pacific and Indian oceans.
TITLE: bivalve (class of mollusks)
SECTION: Size range and diversity of structure

Bivalves range in size from about one millimetre (0.04 inch) in length to the giant clam of South Pacific coral reefs, Tridacna gigas, which may be more than 137 centimetres (54 inches) in length and weigh 264 kilograms (582 pounds). Such an animal may have a life span of about 40 years.