关于Tridacna Costata的故事最初是在三年前发表的。我们对红海中鲜为人知的Tridacna Costata几乎没有其他关注,所以这里有一个复习
You know, when the first reports surfaced of a new giant clam species,Tridacna costata,being discovered in the Red Sea using molecular analysis, we were suspicious that this was one of those cryptic species that only only biologists really care about. The photos provided in the original description only showed a little bit of the morphological differences betweenT. costata和T. maxima. The description ofT. costataseemed to weigh more heavily on genetics to prove the speciation of the rare Red Sea giant clam but one of the main distinguishing characteristics of this species is the “deeply folded, almost zig-zag dorsal shell pattern”. We were recently contacted by a Reef Builders reader who happens to live near the Red Sea and he tried his hand at eating one but before he realized their scarcity.
According to Mina, the clam “smelled and tasted very bad” and he won’t be fishing them anymore but at least he made some photos and video of the giant clam before and after it was consumed. Mina has made it clear that since he has learned more about this species, he has taken it upon himself to discourage it’s harvest by the local population who believes that the clam is a treatment for diabetes, among other things. The photos and video of Mina’sT. costataclearly show that this species has much more pronounced shell “teeth” which are almost triangular in outline compared to the usually smoothly undulating dorsal shell margin ofT. Maxima。Follow the break for more pictures of the and a video of the rareTridacna costata来自红海。非常感谢Mina Ashraf与我们分享他的内容。在您问之前,是的the在图片背景中的红海。
下图显示了现场T. costata on the left andT. maxima on the right.Â