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Chama asperella   Lamarck, 1819

Jewel boxes

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Chama asperella  AquaMaps  Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Midway Islands country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: never/rarely | Ref:
Regulations: no regulations | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: C: Ref. 93550.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/mq.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Raines, B. and M. Huber, 2012
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Jewel boxes, ... more

Classification / Names / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Venerida () > Chamidae (jewel box shells)

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

; rango de profundidad 10 - 150 m (Ref. 93550).   Tropical

Distribución Países | Áreas FAO | Ecosistemas | Ocurrencias, apariciones | Introducciones

Indo-Pacific and the Mediterranean: Mediterranean to Midway Island and Easter and Salas y Gómez islands.

Length at first maturity / Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 2.2 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 2922)

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Attached to rocks (Ref. 75840).

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

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.

Main reference Referencias | Coordinador | Colaboradores

Taylor, J.D. and E.A. Glover. 2004. (Ref. 8021)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

Human uses


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Nombres comunes
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Madurez
Puesta
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Huevos
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Fuentes de Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Árbol de la vida | Wikipedia (Go, búsqueda) | Expediente Zoológico

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 23 - 28.6, mean 26.6 (based on 220 cells).
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).