RARE Red Sea Cultured Squamosas

[PacificEastAquaculture]

Not sure if these have been available before.

Cultured Red Sea Squamosa clams.

They are quite different from Squamosas from other regions of the world and may in fact be Tridacna squamosina, a different species from Squamosa. There shells are quite different from any other Squamosa I've seen before. The mantle patterns are also very different. These are not yet posted on our site. Here are a couple examples of 3 inch cultured specimens.

 

[Mooses]

Just curious, how do the care on these compare to a maxima?

 

[PacificEastAquaculture]

Just curious, how do the care on these compare to a maxima?

Basically the same

 

[mward]

When are you posting ?

 

[PacificEastAquaculture]

When are you posting ?

Later today

 

[PacificEastAquaculture]

New clams posted

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[PacificEastAquaculture]

Posted 2 today and both sold. I have 2 more and will post them tomorrow evening.

 

[MartinM]

Yep Red Sea clams have been off limits for import to USA for over 20 years. There’s now a workaround by going through the Netherlands. That’s how I recently got 14 Red Sea Maximas. PEA is correct in that Red Sea clams have unique appearances, and these do appear to be Squamosina.

 

[PacificEastAquaculture]

Yep Red Sea clams have been off limits for import to USA for over 20 years. There’s now a workaround by going through the Netherlands. That’s how I recently got 14 Red Sea Maximas. PEA is correct in that Red Sea clams have unique appearances, and these do appear to be Squamosina.

These Red Sea clams are cultured and come from a closed system farm.

 

[OrionN]

These are indeed T. squamosima. They are recently recognized as a distinct species, separated from T. Squamosa. Their distribution included the Red Sea but also in the Pacific. They are actually rare in the Red Sea but more common in the Pacific according to what I read.
A few years ago they were recognized as T. costada but further reviewed they were found to have been described previously, in 1899, as T. squamosima, so this is the correct name. They are now recognized as a distinct separate species from T. squamosa.