Common names from other countries
Classification / Names / Names
Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
; salmastro. Tropical
Indo-West Pacific: from India to Vanuatu; north to southern islands of Japan, and south to Queensland and New Caledonia.
Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 10.5 cm SHL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 348); common length : 7.0 cm SHL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 348)
Widely collected as food in Asia (Ref. 348). Found in intertidal areas in mangrove mud (Ref. 75831, 85174). Also in fresh and brackish waters of mangrove swamps, estuaries, and larger rivers. Highly tolerant to surface desiccation of its habitat; can survive by aerial respiration at the posterior mantle margin for a period of a few days, and feed from subterranean water by means of water exchange through a narrow anterior gape of valves (Ref. 345).
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.
Poutiers, J.M. 1998. (Ref. 348)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
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Estimates based on models
Resilienza
Alto, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione meno di 15 mesi (K=0.76).
Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category
Unknown.
