CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Mollusca (phylum)  »  Bivalvia (class)  »  Veneroida (order)  »  (family)

CAAB Code: 23 340005 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Tridacna maxima   (Röding, 1798)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family: 23 340 (giant clams) - show full list
Common Name: [a giant clam]
Organism Type: a giant clam
Synonyms: Tridacna elongata
Tridacna (Chametrachea) maxima
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 23 340901     Tridacna spp.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:7818c0f7-cdeb-4e4a-b2be-2c6f73846241
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207675
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-07-07
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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Record source: Lamprell, K. Whitehead, T., 1992, Bivalves of Australia. Volume 1. Crawford House Press, Bathurst, N.S.W.
Scientific Name
verified against:		 Su, Y., Hung, J.-H., Kubo, H., Liu, L.-L., 2014. Tridacna noae (Röding, 1798) - a valid giant clam species separated from T. maxima (Röding, 1798) by morphological and genetic data., The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. 62: 124-135.
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