Giant clam  (Tridacna gigas)

Giant clam, showing inhalent and exhalent siphons

This enormous shellfish is the largest species of bivalve mollusc in the fossil record, and the heaviest of all the living molluscs. Like all bivalve molluscs, the shell consists of two valves, although in the larger giant clams these cannot close

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