Tridacna maxima

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	MOLLUSCA	BIVALVIA	VENEROIDA	TRIDACNIDAE

Scientific Name:

Tridacna maxima

Species Authority:

(Röding, 1798)

Common Name/s:

English

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Small Giant Clam

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Lower Risk/conservation dependent ver 2.3

Year Published:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Wells, S.

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1994	–	Insufficiently Known (Groombridge 1994)
1990	–	Insufficiently Known (IUCN 1990)
1988	–	Insufficiently Known (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1986	–	Insufficiently Known (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Native: American Samoa (American Samoa); Australia; British Indian Ocean Territory; China; Cook Islands; Egypt; Fiji; French Polynesia; Guam; India (Andaman Is., Laccadive Is.); Indonesia; Japan; Kenya; Kiribati; Madagascar; Malaysia; Maldives; Marshall Islands; Mauritius; Micronesia, Federated States of; Mozambique; Myanmar; New Caledonia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Pitcairn; Samoa; Saudi Arabia; Seychelles; Singapore; Solomon Islands; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Taiwan, Province of China; Thailand; Tokelau; Tonga; Tuvalu; United States Minor Outlying Islands; Vanuatu; Viet Nam Regionally extinct: Hong Kong
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Countries:

Native:

American Samoa (American Samoa); Australia; British Indian Ocean Territory; China; Cook Islands; Egypt; Fiji; French Polynesia; Guam; India (Andaman Is., Laccadive Is.); Indonesia; Japan; Kenya; Kiribati; Madagascar; Malaysia; Maldives; Marshall Islands; Mauritius; Micronesia, Federated States of; Mozambique; Myanmar; New Caledonia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Pitcairn; Samoa; Saudi Arabia; Seychelles; Singapore; Solomon Islands; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Taiwan, Province of China; Thailand; Tokelau; Tonga; Tuvalu; United States Minor Outlying Islands; Vanuatu; Viet Nam

Regionally extinct:

Hong Kong

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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:	Marine

Systems:

Marine

Citation:	Wells, S. 1996. Tridacna maxima. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2013.
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