Date:         Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:19:58 +1000
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From:         Bronwen Scott <Bronwen.Scott@VUT.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Re: Tridacna species
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On Friday, January 29, 1999 at 1:14:00 am VUT,
"Carole P. Marshall" <Marshalldg@AOL.COM> wrote:
>Hi all,
> I am interested in the Tridacna species and have a couple of questions.
Does
>anyone know in what publication the species T. rosewateri was named and who
>named it and where T. tevora Lucas, Ledua and Braley, 1991 was first
>published.
 
Tridacna rosewateri Sirenko & Scarlato 1991 - sorry, don't know the reference
 
As for T. tevoroa...
 
Lucas, J.S., E. Ledua and R.D.Braley. 1990. A new species of giant clam
(Tridacnidae) from Fiji and Tonga. ACIAR Working Paper No. 33, Australian
Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, 8 pp.
 
Lucas, J.S., E. Ledua and R.D.Braley. 1991. Tridacna tevoroa Lucas, Ledua and
Braley: a recently-described species of giant clam (Bivalvia; Tridacnidae)
from Fiji and Tonga. Nautilus 105: 92-103.