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Tridacna (Chametrachea) costata Roa-Quiaoit, Kochzius, Jantzen, Zibdah, Richter, 2008 
AphiaID: 367180

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Cardioidea (Superfamily) > Cardiidae (Family) > Tridacninae (Subfamily) > Tridacna (Genus) > Tridacna (Chametrachea) (Subgenus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Tridacna squamosina Sturany, 1899
Rank Species
Parent Tridacna (Chametrachea) represented as Tridacna Bruguière, 1797
Sources  original description: Richter, C.; Roa-Quiaoit, H.; Jantzen, C.; Al-Zibdah, M.; Kochzius, M. (2008). Collapse of a New Living Species of Giant Clam in the Red Sea, Current Biology 18, 1–6, available online at http://www.current-biology.com/content/article/fulltext?uid=PIIS096098220800969X [details]

source of synonymy: Huber M. & Eschner A. (2011) Tridacna (Chametrachea) costata Roa-Quiaoit, Kochzius, Jantzen, Al-Zibdah & Richter from the Red Sea, a junior synonym of Tridacna squamosina Sturany, 1899 (Bivalvia, Tridacnidae). Annalen des Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, ser. B, 112: 153-162. [Published March 2011] [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Specimen  Holotype , locality Gulf of Aqaba (in the southern reef flat of the Marine Reserve of the Aqaba Marine Science Station, Jordan) [details]
Note  Length: L 320 mm [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:367180
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-09-02 08:42:34Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2009-02-01 15:00:03Z  changed  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
2011-04-01 09:31:44Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; ter Poorten, J. (2013). Tridacna (Chametrachea) costata Roa-Quiaoit, Kochzius, Jantzen, Zibdah, Richter, 2008. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367180 on 2013-05-23
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