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Here's a list of the state records for Ohio's biggest fish ever caught. ... Lake Erie. Randy Van Dam of Kalamazoo, Michigan, on June 16, 1993. Bass, spotted: 5.25 pounds. 21 inches. Lake White.
Mantle of giant clam with light-sensitive spots, which detect danger and cause the clam to close. Tridacna gigas, the giant clam, is the best-known species of the giant clam genus Tridacna. Giant clams are the largest living bivalve mollusks. Several other species of "giant clam" in the genus Tridacna are often misidentified as Tridacna gigas.
The giant clam (Tridacna gigas) is generally considered to be the largest bivalve mollusc. It is indeed the heaviest species, growing to over 200 kg (440 lb) and measuring up to 120 cm (47 in) in length, [2] but Kuphus polythalamius holds the record for the largest bivalve by length. A specimen owned by Victor Dan in the United States has a ...
The following is a list of lakes in Ohio. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources , there are approximately 50,000 lakes and small ponds, with a total surface area of 200,000 acres, and among these there are 2,200 lakes of 5 acres (2.0 ha) or greater with a total surface area of 134,000 acres. [ 1 ]
The Registry of World Record Size Shells is a conchological work listing the largest (and in some cases smallest) verified shell specimens of various marine molluscan taxa.A successor to the earlier World Size Records of Robert J. L. Wagner and R. Tucker Abbott, it has been published on a semi-regular basis since 1997, changing ownership and publisher a number of times.
The southern giant clam is a popular food item and aquarium species, and has therefore been hunted extensively throughout its natural habitat. [6] However, specimens traded today tend to be the result of aquaculture farms rather than wild-caught individuals, because the southern giant clam was one of the first clams to be bred commercially. [ 6 ]
Alligators have become a common sight in freshwater lakes, ponds, rivers and swamps in the southern U.S. These menacing reptiles may look like crocodiles at first, but if you get a chance to look ...
'Magnificent creatures': New photos show largest anaconda ever recorded. Gannett. Emilee Coblentz, Cincinnati Enquirer. March 3, 2024 at 10:11 AM.