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
Platyceramus
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Platyceramus was a genus of Cretaceous bivalve molluscs belonging to the extinct inoceramid lineage. It is sometimes classified as a subgenus of Inoceramus.
Giant clam
…individuals in the Philippines have successfully dispersed their own spawned larvae to at least several hundred meters away after only ten years. Platyceramus, the largest bivalve in the fossil record Alatoconchidae, large-bodied extinct bivalves…
Platyceramus platinus with Pseudoperna congesta, Gove County, Kansas, USA, Late Cretaceous Royal Ontario Museum DSC00063