Southern giant clam  (Tridacna derasa)

Range

Native to waters around Australia, Cocos Islands, Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vietnam. Populations have also been introduced to American Samoa, Cook Islands, Marshall Islands and Samoa, and reintroduced after extinction in Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia and Northern Mariana Islands (2).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Found on the outer edges of the reef at depths of between 4 and 10 m (5).

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