Tridacna_costata
Tridacna squamosina
Species of bivalve
Tridacna squamosina is a species of the Tridacna genus, the giant clams. These animals are bivalve mollusks belonging to the family Cardiidae identified by Sturany 1899.[1]
In 2008 Roa-Quiaoit, Kochzius, Jantzen, Zibdah & Richter identified what they believed was a new species of giant clam they called Tridacna costata,[2] however in 2011 Markus Huber and Anita Eschner examined a collection of Rudolf Sturanys specimens, held in the Natural History Museum, Vienna, that had remained not properly identified for over 100 years and discovered it was actually Tridacna squamosina.[3] The collection held seven syntypes were identified and Tridacna squamosina was accepted and Tridacna costata formally synonymized.[3]