WoRMS name details
Tridacna (Chametrachea) costata Roa-Quiaoit, Kochzius, Jantzen, Zibdah & Richter, 2008
367180 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:367180)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
Tridacna (Chametrachea) Mörch, 1853 represented as Tridacna Bruguière, 1797
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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. <em>Current Biology.</em> 18: 1349-1354., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.060 [details]
Holotype , geounit Gulf of Aqaba
, Note Jordan, Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Aqaba Marine...
Holotype, geounit Gulf of Aqaba [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tridacna (Chametrachea) costata Roa-Quiaoit, Kochzius, Jantzen, Zibdah & Richter, 2008. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367180 on 2025-05-01
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Nomenclature
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. <em>Current Biology.</em> 18: 1349-1354., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.060 [details]
basis of record Poorten, J.J. ter. (2024). A taxonomic iconography of living Cardiidae. Harxheim: ConchBooks, 600 pp.
page(s): 260 [details]
basis of record Poorten, J.J. ter. (2024). A taxonomic iconography of living Cardiidae. Harxheim: ConchBooks, 600 pp.
page(s): 260 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Huber M. & Eschner A. (2011) <i>Tridacna (Chametrachea) costata</i> Roa-Quiaoit, Kochzius, Jantzen, Al-Zibdah & Richter from the Red Sea, a junior synonym of <i>Tridacna squamosina</i> Sturany, 1899 (Bivalvia, Tridacnidae). <i>Annalen des Naturhistorisches Museum Wien</i>, ser. B, 112: 153-162. [Published March 2011], available online at http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/ANNA_112B_0153-0162.pdf [details]
Holotype, geounit Gulf of Aqaba [details]
From editor or global species database
Length L 320 mm [details]Type locality Jordan, Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Aqaba Marine Science Station, southern reef flat of the Marine Reserve, 18.02.2006, leg. H. Roa-Quiaoit & Y. Ahmed [details]
Type material Aqaba Marine Science Station, Jordan, reg. no. 0001, holotype [details]
