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全名 Tridacna squamosa Lamarck, 1819
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英文俗名 Fluted Clam, Scaly Giant Clam, Fluted Giant Clam.
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外殼特徵 Shell reaching 41cm in length; semicircular in outlines; theangle formed at the umbo by the hinge line and ventralmargin usually greater than 150o; strongly inflated andhaving medium-sized to small byssal orifice. Valvesmoderately heavy and thick; color usually grayish white butoccasionally tinged with orange; encrusted with vermetids,annelid tube, coral, coralline algae, and debris. Primaryradial sculpture consists of from 4 to 12 strongly convex,rib-like folds which become crowed and obsolete on ventralslop. Usually 5 or 6 of the folds are very strong. Concentricsculpture consists of projecting scales on primary folds.
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地理分布 East Africa to eastern Melanesia. This species lives on thesurface of coral reefs, usually in somewhat protectedlocalities; in reef moats (Stephenson et al. 1931)
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模式產地 The location of the holotype of T. squamosa is unknown.The type locality, "l'Ocean indien" mentioned by Lamarck,may be interpreted to include the East Indies.
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原始記錄
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同種異名 Tridacne imbricata Link, 1807Tridacna squamoza Chenu, 1845Tridacna elongatissima Bianconi, 1856Tridacna lamarcki Hidalgo, 1903
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備註 This species was listed in the CITES Appendix II on 1stAugust 1985. The photo-specimen was collected from thesouth tip of Taiwan and was inventory in the MalacologyLab., Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Taipei,Taiwan。
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