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tridacna gigas

A large clam inhabiting reefs in the southern Pacific and weighing up to 500 pounds.

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        Of shells there was not a great variety; a chama ( Tridacna gigas, Lam.)
        Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of...
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