Giant clam - Tridacna gigas
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Traditional protection proves more successful for clams in American Samoa For coastal Indigenous communities in American Samoa, giant clams are deeply rooted in fa‘a Sāmoa (the Samoan way of life) and local food systems. According to the findings of a study published in Pee...

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"A study found that on the most populated island in American Samoa, traditional village-based protections and remote sites had the highest density of giant clams — outperforming federally designated no-take zones in one case."

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When scientists went to a group of remote #SouthPacific islands, they weren’t expecting to find so many of these giants | Discover Wildlife share.google/rZwFD8Eaj4Sd...

Status and trends of giant clam populations demonstrate the effectiveness of village-based protection in American Sāmoa Giant clams (subfamily Tridacninae) serve diverse ecological functions in coral reef ecosystems but have experienced severe populatiaon declines across much of their native ranges. Continued overharve...

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Status and trends of giant clam populations demonstrate the effectiveness of village-based protection in American Sāmoa [PeerJ] share.google/8EqjTzGmudxZ...

#fossilfriday a shell of a giant inoceramid clam. How much chowder you think you could make with that? On display at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, Kansas.

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Tridacna gigas, the #giantclam, 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 Tridacna are often misidentified as Tridacna gigas.

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Friends in unlikely places: key #coral #microbes in #giantclam poop

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Ten years of Tridacna sclerochemistry at up to daily resolution from a controlled aquarium environment – Records of habitat change, induced seasonality and growth variability Giant clams such as Tridacna sp., with their rapid shell accretion (mm-cm/year), decade-long lifespans and aragonitic shells, are invaluable (palaeo)e…

Fascinating study on a #giantclam that was kept in the Dutch @burgerszoo.bsky.social aquarium for a decade and recorded changes in it's (semi)controlled environment in its shell. These types of growth experiments allow us to use shells as archives of past change
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Young giant clam - Tridacna gigas
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Giant clam with a wig
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Congratulations to MRG undergraduate researcher, Alice Andrews, for presenting her EES Undergraduate Thesis on ENSO signatures in giant clam species and for making it to the departments final four presentations!

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Wonderful different colours of giant clams across a number of dive sites during our Fiji trip #fiji #marinelife #photography #underwaterphotography #scuba #scubadiving #giantclam #clam #underwater #savasiisland

The Ocean's Menagerie by Drew Harvell: 9780593654286 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books An elegantly written exploration of the cutting edge science of the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet by a leading marine biologist Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms th...

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20,000 days in the life of a giant clam reveal late Miocene tropical climate variability Giant clams (Tridacna) are well-suited archives for studying past climates at (sub-)seasonal timescales, even in ‘deep-time’ due to their high preserv…

I'm highly impressed by this awesome short-term #climate #reconstruction study by Iris Arndt and colleagues, who use a #giantclam from the #Miocene to study daily (!) climate variability in this warmer period, including potential #ENSO and #extreme #weather!
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Chowder, an 80 million yr old Inoceramid clam from Kansas. It’s about a metre diameter, flat with a ridge at the edge, and encased in plaster (for shipment)

Got to meet Chowder behind the scenes at the Burke.

Also got to touch a Tyrannosaurus rib, but … Chowder! 🤩 #dinosaurs #giantclam #museum

Treat to see at Anilao a colony of c12 huge Tridacna gigas Giant Clams, and a fine Noah's Giant Clam (T. noae).
Intertidal rocks were encrusted with Hooded (aka Natal Rock) Oysters (Saccostrea cuccullata). #GiantClam #Bivalves #SealifeSaturday #MolluskMonday #invertefest 8/25

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