Tridacna gigas

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA MOLLUSCA BIVALVIA VENEROIDA TRIDACNIDAE

Scientific Name: Tridacna gigas
Species Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Name/s:
English – Giant Clam
French – Bénitier Géant

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Vulnerable   A2cd   ver 2.3
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations:
Needs updating
Assessor/s Wells, S.
History:
1994 – Vulnerable (IUCN)
1990 – Vulnerable (IUCN 1990)
1988 – Vulnerable
1986 – Vulnerable (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1983 – Vulnerable

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:
Native:
Australia; Indonesia; Japan; Kiribati; Malaysia; Marshall Islands; Micronesia, Federated States of; Myanmar; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Solomon Islands; Thailand; Tuvalu
Possibly extinct:
Fiji; Guam; New Caledonia; Northern Mariana Islands; Taiwan, Province of China; Vanuatu
Introduced:
United States

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems: Marine
Citation: Wells, S. 1996. Tridacna gigas. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2010.
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