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Chamelea gallina   (Linnaeus, 1758)

Striped venus clam

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Common names: [No common name]
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Classification / Names / Names Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Venerida () > Veneridae (venus clams)

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

; distribuzione batimetrica 5 - 25 m (Ref. 2758).   Subtropical, preferred 12°C (Ref. 107945); 72°N - 27°N, 19°W - 42°E

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Introduzioni

Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?, range 1 - ? cm Max length : 5.0 cm SHL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 78075)

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Depth based on occurrence (Ref. 2758, p. 805); to be replaced with better reference. Minimum depth from Ref. 2703. Infaunal, occurs in the infralittoral zone. Found on sand, sandy-mud or mud. Prefers well-sorted fine sand (Ref. 82278). An active suspension feeder (Ref. 96376).

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

Gaspar, M.B., M.N. Santos and P. Vasconcelos. 2001. (Ref. 2758)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)


CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Human uses

Pesca: commerciale
FAO - Acquacoltura: production; pesca: landings, species profile | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Fonti Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(pesca: species profile; 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): 8.4 - 18.9, mean 11.6 (based on 608 cells).
Resilienza (Ref. 69278) Alto, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione meno di 15 mesi (K=0.43; tm=2).
Prior r = 0.50, 95% CL = 0.33 - 0.75, Based on 3 data-limited stock assessments.
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Medium.