Bivalvia | 
Cardiida | 
Cardiidae
			
			
			
				Environment: milieu / climate zone / Mức độ sâu / distribution range				
				
					Sinh thái học				
				
			
			
				;  Mức độ sâu 0 - 84 m (Tài liệu tham khảo 83435).  Tropical			
			
			
				
			
			
			
				Western Atlantic.
			
			
			
			
			
				Length at first maturity / Bộ gần gũi / Weight / Age
			
			
				Chín muồi sinh dục: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 7.0 cm DL con đực/không giới tính; (Tài liệu tham khảo 83435)			
			
			
							
				
				
					
						Shell with circular to oval outline, equivalve, higher than long.  Sculpture of 30 to 40 radial ribs with sharp scales.  Scales less prominent on central ribs.  Hinge well developed.  Colour:  extremely light cream with irregular patches of brownish red or yellow; internally white, rarely yellowish (Ref. 344).					
				
				
						
			
			
			
			
				
					It is 5 cm in size (Ref. 344).  Maximum depth from Ref. 104365. Buried in sand in moderately shallow subtidal conditions, sometimes in coral reef environments (Ref. 344).  Inlet influenced (Ref. 104365).				
			
			
			
			
			
				Life cycle and mating behavior				
					Chín muồi sinh dục | Sự tái sinh sản | Đẻ trứng | Eggs | Sự sinh sản | Larvae				
			
			
				
					Members of the class Bivalvia are mostly gonochoric, some are protandric hermaphrodites.  Life cycle:  Embryos develop into free-swimming trocophore larvae, succeeded by the bivalve veliger, resembling a miniature clam.				
			
			
			
			
			
				Leal, J.H. 2003 Bivalves. p. 25-98. In Carpenter, K.E. (ed.). The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 1: Introduction, molluscs, crustaceans, hagfishes, sharks, batoid fishes, and chimaeras. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special Publication No. 5. 1600p. (Tài liệu tham khảo 344)
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
					
						IUCN Red List Status    
						 (Tài liệu tham khảo 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
					
				
			
			
			
			
				CITES status   (Tài liệu tham khảo 108899)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
				CMS (Tài liệu tham khảo 116361)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
				Threat to humans  
			
			
				
									
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				Human uses  
			
			
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					 Population dynamicsSự sinh trưởng
Max. ages / sizes
Length-weight rel.
Length-length rel.
Length-frequencies
Mass conversion
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				Estimates based on models
			
			
			
									
						Preferred temperature  					
				 (Ref. 
115969): 25.7 - 28, mean 27.2 (based on 234 cells).			
 
			
			
			
			
			
						
							
				
					
						Fishing Vulnerability  					
					
					
						Low vulnerability (10 of 100).