Bivalvia | 
Mytilida | 
Mytilidae
			
			
			
				Environment: milieu / climate zone / пределы глубины / distribution range				
				
					экология				
				
			
			
				;  пределы глубины 0 - 40 m (ссылка 348).  Tropical			
			
			
				
			
			
			
				Indo-Pacific:  from eastern Africa, to eastern Indonesia; north to Japan and south to Queensland and Western Australia.
			
			
			
			
			
				Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Возраст
			
			
				половая зрелость: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 13.0 cm TL самец/пол неопределен; (ссылка 348); common length : 8.5 cm TL самец/пол неопределен; (ссылка 348)			
			
			
							
				
				
					
						Shell relatively thin but solid, swollen, elongate-ovate and roughly trapeziform in outline.  Anterior margin short, protruding anteriorly well beyond the inflated umbones, posterodorsal margin long, oblique in relation to ventral margin, slightly arched, forming an obtuse and rounded angle with the broadly rounded posterior margin.  Ventral margin long and slightly sinuous, with a shallow concavity at about midlength of shell.  Outer surface sculptured with numerous concentric growth marks.  Periostracum generally smooth.  Hinge line smooth, without teeth or crenulations.  Anterior adductor scar present.  Internal margins smooth.  Colour:  outside of shell yellowish brown.  Interior pearly and off-white to purplish red.					
				
				
						
			
			
			
			
				
					On muddy and gravely mudflats (Ref. 821).  Littoral and sublittoral to a depth of 40 m (Ref. 348).  Byssally attached to pebbles and sand grains on sandy to muddy shores, only exposing the posterior margin of its shell (Ref. 125512).				
			
			
			
			
			
				Life cycle and mating behavior				
					половая зрелость | размножение | нерест | Eggs | Fecundity | 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.				
			
			
			
			
				Основная ссылка  				
					ссылки | координатор | соавторы
				
			
			
				Poutiers, J.M. 1998 Bivalves. Acephala, Lamellibranchia, Pelecypoda. p. 123-362. In Carpenter, K. E. and V. H. Niem. 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 1. Seaweeds, corals, bivalves, and gastropods. Rome, FAO. (ссылка 348)
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
					
						Статус Красного Списка МСОП    
						 (ссылка 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
					
				
			
			
			
			
				Статус СИТЕС   (ссылка 108899)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
				CMS (ссылка 116361)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
				Угроза для людей  
			
			
				
					  Harmless				
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				Использование человеком  
			
			
				рыболовство: коммерческий			
			
			
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					дополнительная информация				
				
					 Trophic EcologyFood items (preys)
состав пищи
потребление пищи
хищники
  Population dynamicsростMax. ages / sizesLength-weight rel.Length-length rel.Размерный составMass conversionчисленность   Life cycleразмножениеполовая зрелостьFecundityнерестEggsРазвитие икрыLarvae   PhysiologyOxygen consumption
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				Estimates based on models
			
			
			
									
						Preferred temperature  					
				 (Ref. 
115969): 22.4 - 29.1, mean 28 (based on 1252 cells).			
 
			
			
			
			
			
						
							
				
					
						Fishing Vulnerability  					
					
					
						Low vulnerability (10 of 100).