Educational resources on Giant Clam

Giant Clam or Tridacna gigas is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Vulnerable due to A2cd. IUCN Profile of the Giant Clam

Academic web links for the Giant Clam.

ADW: Tridacna gigas: Information
Tridacna gigas giant clam ... Giant clams are found throughout the Tropical Indo-Pacific oceanic region, from the
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Tridacna_gigas.html

Microdocs: The Solar Powered Clam
Giant Clam. National Geographic. Retrieved 8 August 2008 from http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/giant-clam.html. Wikipedia.
www.stanford.edu/group/microdocs/solarclams.html

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www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~smita/DunkIslandandMelbourne/giantclam.html

Giant clam
The clams were literally big enough to get inside. Photo album created with Web Album Generator
techhouse.brown.edu/~dmorris/photos/australia/giantclam.html

Augsburg College: Aquaria: Giant Clam
Giant Clam. A juvenile giant clam (Tridacna derasa) in the reef aquarium. Other organisms visible in photo: The brown tubular creatures to the left of the giant clam are nocturnal
www.augsburg.edu/home/biology/aquaria/Initial2PhotoSets/blue.html

Microdocs: Growing a Giant Clam
Giant calms are becoming increasingly rare. Fijians are farming giant clams to repopulate their reefs. Giant clams are increasingly rare on Fiji’s coral reefs.
www.stanford.edu/group/microdocs/growing.html

CONCH-L archives -- November 2006, week 4
Re: Giant clam sushi (90 lines) From: Harry G. Lee <shells@HGLEE.COM> Re: Giant clam sushi (140 lines) From: John Varner <johnsvarner@MSN.COM> Re: Giant clam sushi (153 lines)
www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0611d&L=conch-l&D=0

Fluted Giant Clam
This beautiful clam is found on coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific. They can be orange, pink, yellow, or white.
amylyne.myweb.uga.edu/GSC/jpgs/tridacna.htm

Tridacnidae (Giant Clams)
Fluted Giant Clam (lower photo shows a round gap for the byssus, opening at the left of the hinge) SEE THE LIVE CLAM: Doug Segar and Elaine Stamman Segar, reefimages
shells.tricity.wsu.edu/ArcherdShellCollection/Bivalvia/Tridacnidae.html

Tridacnidae
FAMILY: Tridacnidae : NAME: Tridacna gigas - Giant clam: Data provided courtesy of Aquaculture/Fisheries Center, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff - (Dr
www.uaex.edu/pperschbacher/Fish/Giant-clam.htm