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Tridacna crocea
It grows to a maximum shell size of 15 cm.
The boring clam is native to the Indo-Pacific
Spotted on Feb 4, 2018
Submitted on Feb 4, 2018
8 Comments
Colours in this photo are amazing...far from boring 😀
Congrats! I also find them everything but boring 😊
Congratulations Marek, your Boring Clam is our Spotting the Day. You'll also find the answer to your question in the write-up and the reference below:
"There's nothing boring about this Boring Clam (Tridacna crocea), our Spotting of the Day! This colorful clam goes by many common names, but owes the "boring" qualifier to its burrowing into the subtrates on which it lives, such as corals. The boring clam is the smallest clam in the subfamily Tridacnidae ("giant clams"), a group of very large saltwater marine bivalve mollusks in the family Cardiidae. This picture shows the clam's expanded mantle with numerous protrusions on its upper surface. The slit-like opening in the mantle is the clam's inhalent syphon (where water is drawn into the clam's body); the exhalent siphon (where water exits the clam’s body) is the chimney-like structure in the centre.
Read more about this fascinating clam here: https://buff.ly/2EkLjnB "
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Amazing! I love the emerald studs!
Interesting clam!
I don't know why it is called boring clam. I find them quite interesting 😀
Spectacular, wow!
The look of it is anything but boring; I assume the name refers to something it does.