WoRMS taxon details

Tridacna mbalavuana Ladd, 1934

466759  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:466759)

accepted
Species
Tridacna (Chametrachea) mbalavuana Ladd, 1934 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Tridacna (Tridacna) mbalavuana Ladd, 1934 · alternative representation
Tridacna tevoroa Lucas, Ledua & Braley, 1990 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Ladd, H. S. (1934). Geology of Viti Levu, Fiji. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 119: 1-263.
page(s): 185, pl. 31 figs 2-3 [details] 
Note Fiji, Viti Levu, S. side Walu Bay, stat. 160....  
Type locality Fiji, Viti Levu, S. side Walu Bay, stat. 160. ‘Upper tertiary’ (Rosewater, 1965: 62-067). ‘late Miocene’ (Harzhauser et al., 2008: 206) [details]
Type material BPBM Geol. 1124, holotype [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Tridacna mbalavuana Ladd, 1934. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=466759 on 2024-11-07
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2010-03-26 11:05:47Z
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2010-10-02 22:08:23Z
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2011-03-07 20:34:22Z
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2014-08-12 13:11:57Z
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original description Ladd, H. S. (1934). Geology of Viti Levu, Fiji. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 119: 1-263.
page(s): 185, pl. 31 figs 2-3 [details] 

original description (of Tridacna tevoroa Lucas, Ledua & Braley, 1990) Lucas, J.S., Ledua, E. & Braley, R.D. (1990). A new species of giant clam (Tridacnidae) from Fiji and Tonga. ACIAR Working Paper No. 33, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, 1-8.
page(s): 1 [details] 

basis of record Newman W.A. & Gomez E.D. (2002). On the status of giant clams, relics of Tethys (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Tridacninae). <em>Proceedings 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, Indonesia 23-27 October 2000.</em> 2: 1-11. [details] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Type locality Fiji, Viti Levu, S. side Walu Bay, stat. 160. ‘Upper tertiary’ (Rosewater, 1965: 62-067). ‘late Miocene’ (Harzhauser et al., 2008: 206) [details]

Type material BPBM Geol. 1124, holotype [details]
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English devil clam  [details]
German Teufelsmuschel  [details]