#4835 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Small Giant Clam

🇳🇱 Gravende Doopvontschelp ·Tridacna maxima

LCleast concern 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Micha Baum · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © josepvilanova · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi) · CC BY 4.0
4. © Roger Rittmaster · CC BY 4.0
5. © Kai Squires · CC BY 4.0
6. Windward Islands, Französisch-Polynesien:© Susanne Spindler · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. Kwajalein Atoll, RMI:© uwkwaj · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. L'Île des Pins, Nouvelle-Calédonie:© Joëlle VINCENT · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Taiwan, TW:© vietposeidon · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Janub Sina', EG:© Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The maxima clam ( Tridacna maxima ), also known as the small giant clam , is a species of bivalve mollusc found throughout the Indo-Pacific region. 9 in) in length.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,553iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
7,553 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Peter Friedrich Röding in 1798 (228 years ago).