Giant clam
Scientific name: Tridacna gigas (Linnaeus, 1758)
Overview
Tridacna gigas, the giant clam, is the best-known species of the giant clam genus Tridacna. Giant clams are the largest living bivalve molluscs. Several other species of "giant clam" in the genus Tridacna are often misidentified as Tridacna gigas.
From the Wikipedia article “Giant clam”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Critically endangered on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Common names
Also known in English as killer clam.
Names in other languages (9)
- Arabic
- بصر
- Chinese
- 大硨磲, 巨硨磲蛤
- French
- Bénitier Géant, Tridacne géant
- German
- Große Riesenmuschel, Mördermuschel, Riesenmuscheln
- Indonesian
- Kima raksasa
- Japanese
- オオシャコガイ
- Persian
- صدف دوکفهای غولپیکر
- Russian
- Гигантская треуголка
- Turkish
- dev deniz taragi
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: MolluscaBase.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q751784, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Giant clam”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Nhobgood Nick Hobgood, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026