Tridacna maxima (Röding, 1798)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=352078
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Bivalvia
- order
- Cardiida
- family
- Cardiidae
- genus
- Tridacna
- species
- Tridacna maxima
Name
- Synonyms
- Chama maxima (Roeding, 1798)
- Tridachnes imbricata Röding, 1798
- Tridachnes maxima Röding, 1798
- Tridacna acuticostata G.B.Sowerby Iii, 1912
- Tridacna compressa Reeve, 1862
- Tridacna detruncata Bianconi, 1869
- Tridacna elongata Lamarck, 1819
- Tridacna fossor Hedley, 1921
- Tridacna imbricata (Röding, 1798)
- Tridacna lanceolata G.B.Sowerby II, 1884
- Tridacna maxima var. fossor Hedley, 1921
- Tridacna mutica Lamarck, 1819
- Tridacna reevei Hidalgo, 1903
- Tridacna rudis Reeve, 1862
- Tridacna troughtoni Iredale, 1927
- Homonyms
- Tridacna maxima (Röding, 1798)
- Common names
- Bénitier in French
- Kleine Riesenmuschel in German
- Längliche Riesenmuschel in German
- elongate clam in English
- elongated clam in English
- small giant clam in English
- シラナミガイ in Japanese
- Small Giant Clam in English
- Kleine Riesenmuschel in German
- Längliche Riesenmuschel in German
- elongate clam in English
- elongated clam in English
- small giant clam in English
- シラナミガイ in Japanese
Bibliographic References
- Bonfitto A., Sabelli B., Tommasini S. & Herbert D. (1994). Marine molluscan taxa from Mozambique described by G.G. Bianconi and preserved in the Zoological Museum of the Univerity of Bologna. Annals of the Natal Museum 35:133-138.
- Huber, M. (2010). <i>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</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
- Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp.
- Poorten, J.J. ter, 2009. The Cardiidae of the Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project 2004 and the Panglao 2005 Deep-Sea Cruise with descriptions of four new species (Bivalvia). <i>Vita Malacologica</i> 8: 9-96 [21 November 2009] . Available online at http://dare.uva.nl/record/340850
- Poorten, J.J. ter. (2024). A taxonomic iconography of living Cardiidae. Harxheim: ConchBooks, 600 pp.