Arctica islandica, Ocean quahog : fisheries

Arctica islandica   (Linnaeus, 1767)

Ocean quahog

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Classification / Names Tên thường gặp | Các synonym ( Các tên trùng) | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Bivalvia | Venerida | Arcticidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / Mức độ sâu / distribution range Sinh thái học

; Mức độ sâu 0 - 482 m (Tài liệu tham khảo 88171).  Temperate, preferred 7°C (Tài liệu tham khảo 107945); 77°N - 35°N, 120°W - 45°E

Distribution Các nước | Các khu vực của FAO | Các hệ sinh thái | Những lần xuất hiện | Những chỉ dẫn

Northern Atlantic and the Arctic: from Bay of Cadiz Spain, north to Iceland, and from Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, USA to the Canadian Arctic. Subtropical to polar.

Length at first maturity / Bộ gần gũi / Weight / Age

Chín muồi sinh dục: Lm ?, range 2 - 4.1 cm Max length : 13.0 cm SHL con đực/không giới tính; (Tài liệu tham khảo 88171); common length : 7.6 cm SHL con đực/không giới tính; (Tài liệu tham khảo 360)

Short description Hình thái học

Shell: moderately swollen, thick and robust valves, almost circular, equivalved and inequilateral; has a thick dark brown to blackish periostracum; sculpture consists of thin concentric grooves; well-developed external ligament, reaching the end of the posterior margin of the valve, posterior to the umbones; hinge is heterodont, right and left valves each has three cardinal teeth, anterior and posterior lateral teeth; inside the valves are two slightly different muscle scars (dimyarian, anisomyarian), linked by a continuous pallial line (integropalliate), without a sinus; crossed-lamellae structure. Body: pair of gills each consists of two series of lamellae extensively linked by interlamellar junctions (eulamellibranch); foot is large and the two mantle lobes fuse to form two stout siphons.

Sinh học     Tự điển (thí dụ epibenthic)

Minimum depth from Ref. 7726. Maximum shell height at 13 cm (anterior-posterior: from the whorl to opposite shell edge) in the Northeast Atlantic. Considered one of the slowest growing clam species in the world and extremely long-lived with an age record of 374 years. As an endobenthic species, population threats include anthropogenic factors such as mechanical damage, oxygen deficiency/eutrophication, unintentional habitat dislocation, temperature and osmotic stress brought by climate change, and, on a major scale, increased trawl fishery in the North Atlantic (Ref. 88171). Prefer a temperature range of 1° to 18°C and, although found in brackish waters with salinity levels of 14 and higher, is intolerant of salinities below 10. Found in both shallow and deep waters with preferred depth range between 10 and 280 m. Having a short siphon, it buries shallow beneath the surface, in gravelly, sandy to muddy sediments, and sapropels but preferentially in fine, silty sediment. Maintains a stationary position once it has settled onto the substrate. May burrow below the sediment surface possibly to escape predators or to conserve energy by going into this anaerobic phase which can last up to 7 days. A suspension and detritus feeder on fresh organic matter; filters phytoplankton and able to pick up food particles from the seabed with the tentacles on the end of its siphon, it being a suspension feeder. Dioecious with reproduction continuous throughout the year. Late sexual maturity, at around 5 to 11 years, make its population sensitive to disturbance (Ref. 88171).

Life cycle and mating behavior Chín muồi sinh dục | Sự tái sinh sản | Đẻ trứng | Eggs | Sự sinh sản | 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 Các tài liệu tham khảo | Người điều phối | Người cộng tác

Harvey-Clark, C. 1997 Eastern tidepool and reef: north-central Atlantic marinelife guide. Hancock House Publishers, 64pp. (Tài liệu tham khảo 7726)

IUCN Red List Status (Tài liệu tham khảo 130435: Version 2025-1)


CITES status (Tài liệu tham khảo 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Tài liệu tham khảo 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

Các nghề cá: Tính thương mại
FAO - Các nghề cá: landings, species profile | FishSource | Biển chung quanh ta

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Sinh thái dinh dưỡng
Food items (preys)
Thành phần thức ăn
Thành phần thức ăn
Các động vật ăn mồi
Sinh thái học
Life cycle
Sự tái sinh sản
Chín muồi sinh dục
Sự sinh sản
Đẻ trứng
Eggs
Egg development
Larvae
Distribution
Các nước
Các khu vực của FAO
Các hệ sinh thái
Những lần xuất hiện
Những chỉ dẫn
Physiology
Thành phần ô-xy

Các nguồn internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Các nghề cá: species profile; publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Cây Đời sống | Wikipedia (Go, tìm) | Tạp chí Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 6.6 - 10.9, mean 9.8 (based on 204 cells).
Thích nghi nhanh (Ref. 69278): thấp, thời gian nhân đôi của chủng quần tối thiểu là 4.5 - 14 năm (K=0.02-0.2; tm=4.5).
Prior r = 0.47, 95% CL = 0.31 - 0.70, Based on 1 full stock assessment.
Fishing Vulnerability (Tài liệu tham khảo 71543): High vulnerability (56 of 100).
Climate Vulnerability (Tài liệu tham khảo 125649): High to very high vulnerability (66 of 100).
Price category (Tài liệu tham khảo 80766): Low.
Nutrients :  Calcium = 149 [71, 228] mg/100g; Iron = 8.53 [1.95, 15.11] mg/100g; Protein = 9.88 [8.64, 11.12] %; Omega3 = 0.313 [0.202, 0.423] g/100g; Selenium = 61 [50, 72] μg/100g; VitaminA = 0 μg/100g; Zinc = 2.04 [0.56, 3.51] mg/100g (wet weight); based on nutrient studies.