Giant clam
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Tridacna gigas, the giant clam, is the best-known species of the giant clam genus Tridacna. Giant clams are the largest living bivalve molluscs. Several other species of "giant clam" in the genus Trid
Giant clam Michaelmas Cay
Mantle with light-sensitive spots, which detect danger and cause the clam to close
In Bunaken Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Empty shell in the French National Museum of Natural History
Tridacna
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Tridacna is a genus of large saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Tridacninae, the giant clams. Many Tridacna species are threatened. They have heavy shells, fluted with 4 to 6 fo
Giant clam
…Tridacna gigas, the giant clam, is the best-known species of the giant clam genus Tridacna. Giant clams are the largest living bivalve molluscs. Several other species of "giant clam" in the genus Tridacna are often misidentified as Tridacna…
Drawing of a Tridacna spp. (NOAA)
One of the two clam stoups of the Église Saint-Sulpice in Paris, carved by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle.
Tridacna crocea