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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 Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Venerida () > Chamidae (jewel box shells)

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

; distribuzione batimetrica 10 - 150 m (Ref. 93550).   Tropical

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Introduzioni

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

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 2.2 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 2922)

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Attached to rocks (Ref. 75840).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

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 Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

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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Strumenti

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Informazioni ulteriori

Stati
Aree FAO
Ecosystems
Presenze
Introduzioni
Stocks
Ecologia
Dieta
Prede
Nomi Comuni
Sinonimi
Predatori
Riproduzione
Maturità
Deposizione
Fecundity
Uova
Egg development
Age/Size
Accrescimento
Length-weight
Length-length
Morfologia
Larve
Abbondanza
Bibliografia
Mass conversion
Collaboratori
Immagini

Fonti Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, ricerca) | Zoological Record

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).