WoRMS taxon details
Tridacna gigas (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 207670
AphiaID: 207670
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Cardioidea (Superfamily) > Cardiidae (Family) > Tridacninae (Subfamily) > Tridacna (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Tridacna Bruguière, 1797 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Chama gigantea Perry, 1811 (synonym) Chama gigas Linnaeus, 1758 Tridacna (Tridacna) gigas (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [details] from synonym: Poorten, J.J. ter, 2005. Outline of a systematic index - Recent Cardiidae (Lamarck, 1809). VISAYA net. (Updated 2009 for WoRMS), available online at http://www.conchology.be/en/shelltopics/visaya-net/date.php?year=2005 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Distribution | Madagascar [details] Tanzania [details] Thailand Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Anthessius alatus Humes & Stock, 1965 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lichomolgus tridacnae Humes, 1972 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (369 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 15 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207670 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bouchet, P.; Huber, M. (2013). Tridacna gigas (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207670 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||||||||
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