Recently, Tridacna was the subject of a post at A Snail's Eye View. From Wordnik.com. [Bivalve news] Reference
Amongst them is the monstrous Tridacna (gigantea), which sometimes attains a growth of. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
Researchers have discovered a new species of living giant clam, Tridacna costata, in the Red Sea. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Zooxanthellae are also found in other animals including some species of jellyfish and in giant clams (Tridacna spp.). From Wordnik.com. [Zooxanthellae] Reference
The principal room contained many signs of royalty: feather gods, carved shark's teeth, and huge Tridacna shells from the south. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
The giant clam Tridacna displays a rapid growth rate and has demonstrated good potential for mariculture in the Caroline Islands. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 3] Reference
At night the moon was full, brilliant as a disk of polished Tridacna, but when she studied the moon she found no ring around it, no omen of storm. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
In fact, the only time I wrote about them may have been once about the largest of them all, Tridacna gigas and once about one of the tiniest, a Pisidium. From Wordnik.com. [Bivalve news] Reference
Tridacnid calms such as crocus calm Tridacna crosea, giant clam T. gigas (VU), scaly calm T. squamosa (LR) and horse's hoof (Bear paw) clam Hippopus hippopus (LR) are found in some parts of the lagoon. From Wordnik.com. [Tubbataha Reef Marine Park, Philippines] Reference
Several sites in the northern Moluccas, Talaud, and Admiralty Islands have a unique and rather impressive industry of adzes made from shells of large Tridacna and Hippopus clams at about the same date. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Seafarers] Reference
(Tridacna gigas) has a shell that can grow to be 1.2 m across. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Tridacna crocea, a soft coral Sinularia lochmodes, and a stony coral. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Tridacna costata accounted for more than 80\% of the area's giant clams. From Wordnik.com. [Clipmarks | Live Clips] Reference
Tridacna crocea, (c) a soft coral Sinularia lochmodes, and (d) a stony coral Ctenactis echinata. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
As well as this finding, this study also brought the first demonstration that consumption of giant clams (Tridacna) was linked to poisoning outbreaks. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
The smallest known clams, the Condylocardia have a shell that only measures 0.1 mm while the Giant clam (Tridacna gigas) has a shell that can grow to be 1.2 m across Description. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
In the coral clumps the great holy-water clam (Tridacna) grows plentifully; a little deeper lie the beds of the pearl-oyster and sail the resplendent fish that charmed us at our entrance; and these are all more or less vigorously coloured. From Wordnik.com. [In the South Seas] Reference
Possibly the golden age of the pearl is passing as the golden age of the reptile has passed, for can it not be imagined that, in those far-back days when oysters attained a length of two feet and better deserved the title of Tridacna (three bites) than the present clams, pearls of corresponding magnificence of size were produced?. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
Tridacna gigas - Giant Clam?. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery Pic] Reference
Tridacna gigas, Linné. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference
Tridacna or something. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
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