Tridacna (Noun)
Meaning
Type genus of the family Tridacnidae: giant clams.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The giant clams in the tridacna genus can be found in tropical waters, specifically coral reefs, where they can live up to a hundred years.
- Researchers focused on studying tridacna clams as part of a project aimed at coral reef conservation efforts in Southeast Asia.
- Local communities and divers report declines in the population of the massive tridacna in various island habitats around the Indo-Pacific.
- CITES banned commercial trading of giant clams of the genus tridacna, stating conservation of endangered tridacnid clams and associated marine species would not meet expected trade-offs with unrestricted capture for long.
- When identifying any massive shell samples recovered during shipwreck archaeological studies it has to be kept in mind these possibly ancient relic could very well include ancient and unreasonably giant-sized specimen, if species the samples appear from be member or ancestral descendant genus, including possibly one named the genus Tridacna