#giant clam

[critter-creature-or-beast]

By Charles J. Sharp - Own work, from Sharp Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0

[maclanahan--mermaid-comics]

Half-shell Hideaway

[girl-detector]

🫵🫵🫵 You.

Tridacna clams, often known as "giant clams" (presumably because it is the clade that contains Tridacna gigas), get nutrients from both filter feeding with its siphon like other bivalves and having photosynthetic symbionts much like coral, their symbionts living in their enlarged and exposed mantle, recognizable as a "lip".

It takes a long time for them to reach a large size BUT they have been successfully aquacultured reducing the amount that are taken out of the wild

If i'm correct the ones in the aquarium trade are maxima, squamosa, and derasa, and crocea

[knitbelove-draws]

Gentlebeard Wedding Week

Day 7 prompt: honeymoon/"forever"

Read on AO3: "worth it for the picture"

[victusinveritas]

The age old question: to murder a giant clam or commit a fashion faux-pas.

[kuhulua]

I'm legit worried they eat people because of how large they are

[be-gentle-with-littluns-2]

More crack:

Giant Clam furry OC (species, not size)

too late she's 25 feet tall and lives in the ocean

[arturosthrowawaything]

Giant Clam Shell mystery : r/nonmurdermysteries

[vrgssmncht]

Something something Giant Clam my beloved

[cosmicplanarian]

100 Days of Sea Creatures Day 78 - Giant Clam (Tridacna maxima)

[n-rich]

(2023)

[vandagyrre]

[pussinbootsandbountyhunter]

Purple Pearls from the Giant Purple Clams?!

[pochqmqri]

Giant clam at Hastings Reef of the Great Barrier Reef

[rawdough]

Clip from the newer Sonic & Shadow twitter takeover.. But with mine and some friend's little guys instead!

The characters are Ventresca (Sonic) @limboraptor , Manta Ray (Shadow) @80bitesofsweets & Giant Clam (Amy)!