Chinese Register of Marine Species - Tridacna squamosa Lamarck, 1819

Chinese
Register of
Marine Species
(ChaRMS)

ChaRMS taxon details

Tridacna squamosa Lamarck, 1819

AphiaID

207674 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207674)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Tridacna Bruguière, 1797

Original name

Tridacna squamosa Lamarck, 1819

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441
page(s): 106 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tridacna squamosa Lamarck, 1819. Accessed through: Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2025) Chinese Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207674 on 2026-07-12

Regional species database citation

Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026). Chinese Register of Marine Species. Tridacna squamosa Lamarck, 1819. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207674 on 2026-07-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-09-14 06:49:43Z

changed

Garcia, Maria

2010-03-25 10:45:05Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2010-10-02 22:08:23Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2011-03-07 20:34:22Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2014-11-30 11:34:08Z

changed

ter Poorten, Jan Johan

2024-08-15 13:12:29Z

changed

ter Poorten, Jan Johan

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original description Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441
page(s): 106 [details]

additional source Rosewater, J. (1965). The family Tridacnidae in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca. 1 (6): 347-408., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49808748 [details]

additional source Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector's Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 222. [details]

additional source 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). Vita Malacologica 8: 9-96 [21 November 2009] . Available online at http://dare.uva.nl/record/340850, available online at http://dare.uva.nl/record/340850 [details]

additional source Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
page(s): 153 [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Branch, G.M., Griffiths, C.L., Branch, M.L. & Beckley, L.E. (2010). Two Oceans. A guide to the marine life of southern Africa. Revised edition. David Philip: Cape Town.
page(s): 152. [details]

additional source Sinclair, W. F. (1893). Single valve of Tridacna squamosa, the great scaly clam, from Tanna Creek. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 8: 325., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30402997 [details]