Arcinella arcinella, Spiny jewelbox

Arcinella arcinella   (Linnaeus, 1767)

Spiny jewelbox

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Κοινά ονόματα | Συνώνυμα | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Bivalvia | Venerida | Chamidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / εύρος βάθους / distribution range Οικολογία

; εύρος βάθους 2 - 73 m (Αναφ. 83435).  Tropical

Distribution Χώρες | Περιοχές FAO | Οικοσυστήματα | Παρουσίες | Εισαγωγές

Western Atlantic: Caribbean Sea, from Florida to Brazil.

Length at first maturity / Μέγεθος / Weight / Age

Γεννητική Ωρίμανση: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 5.3 cm DL αρσενικό/απροσδιόριστο; (Αναφ. 83435); common length : 5.1 cm SHL αρσενικό/απροσδιόριστο; (Αναφ. 360)

Short description Μορφολογία

Shell: convex valves, slightly inequivalved and inequilateral; coloration is cream or delicately pink; sculpture consists of a score of radialribs decorated with spines whose breadth progressively increases from the umbo to the ventral margin of the valve; between the ribs are small granulations, irregularly arranged; lunule is very differentiated and heart-shaped; ligament is external, hinge is pachyodont; two large muscle scars (posterior is bigger than the anterior; dimyarian, anisomyarian), pallial line is continuous with no sinus. Body: foot is reduced to keep with its sedentary life; mantle cavity has a pair of gills, each with two series of lamellae, extensively fused by interlamellar junctions (eulamellibranch).

Βιολογία     Γλωσσάρι (π.χ. epibenthic)

Life cycle and mating behavior Γεννητική Ωρίμανση | Αναπαραγωγή | Γεννοβολία | Eggs | Γονιμότητα | Larvae

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 Αναφορές | Συντονιστής | Συνεργάτες

Sabelli, B. and H.S. Feinberg (eds.) 1879 Simon and Schuster's Guide to Shells. Simon and Schuster's Inc. New York. 512 pp. (Αναφ. 360)

IUCN Red List Status (Αναφ. 130435: Version 2025-1)


CITES status (Αναφ. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Αναφ. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses


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Διαδικτυακές πηγές

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Δέντρο Ζωής | Wikipedia (Go, αναζήτηση) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 23.9 - 28, mean 26.7 (based on 214 cells).
Fishing Vulnerability (Αναφ. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Αναφ. 80766): Unknown.