WoRMS taxon details
Tridacna (Chametrachea) maxima (Röding, 1798)
AphiaID: 382170
AphiaID: 382170
| 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 | alternate representation | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Tridacna maxima (Röding, 1798) | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Tridacna (Chametrachea) represented as Tridacna Bruguière, 1797 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Tridachnes noae Röding, 1798 Tridacna compressa Reeve, 1862 (synonym) Tridacna imbricata (Röding, 1798) (synonym) Tridacna lanceolata Sowerby II, 1884 (synonym) Tridacna mutica Lamarck, 1819 (synonym - pars) Tridacna noae (Röding, 1798) (synonym) Tridacna reevei Hidalgo, 1903 (synonym) Tridacna rudis Reeve, 1862 (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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] 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: Spry, J.F. (1964). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Part 2: Pelecypoda (Bivalves). Tanganyika Notes and Records 63, available online at http://e-library.costech.or.tz/collect/tanzania/index/assoc/HASHb932.dir/doc.pdf [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Pacific [details] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Antarctic Invertebrates | ||||||||||
| Note |
Length: L 250-350 mm [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:382170 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bouchet, P.; ter Poorten, J. (2013). Tridacna (Chametrachea) maxima (Röding, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382170 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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