🐚Giant clam
Tridacna gigas är världens största mussla, med en vikt som kan överstiga 200 kilo och en längd på 1,2 meter. Den kallas ofta "jättemussla" eller "mördarmussla", men dessa namn avser även närstående arter inom underfamiljen Tridachninae, som utöver Tridacna även innefattar släktet Hippopus. T. gigas utmärks av mycket tjocka, triangulära, likartade skal, försedda med starka tväråsar, som bär taktegelartat grupperade fjäll. Jättemusslor är fästa med byssustrådar. Den förekommer i Indiska oceanen och Stilla havet. Skalen har använts som dopfuntar eller tvättfat. Köttet hos yngre individer har även fungerat som föda.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.
- Body mass
- 500 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Giant clam
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass500 kgmaximum recordedSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Shell length0.8 mtypical adult, shell lengthSeaLifeBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 1.37 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Volume l500 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Giant clam yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumMollusca
- ›classBivalvia
- ›orderCardiida
- ›familyCardiidae
- ›genusTridacna
- ›speciesTridacna gigas
- phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
- classClams, mussels & oysters · Bivalvia
- subfamilyTridacninae
- genusTridacna
All 10 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
- classClams, mussels & oysters · Bivalvia
- subclassHeterodonta
- superorderImparidentia
- orderCardiida
- superfamilyCardioidea
- familyCardiidae
- subfamilyTridacninae
- genusTridacna
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