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click for enlargement		Photo ID: 0091 3183 0985 0058 Current Taxon: Spondylus varius Photographer: Eugene Weber Location: Palau, Palau Photographer's ID: Tridacna sp. Photo Submitted: 2001-03-07 Annotations: 2 annotations Photo ©2001 California Academy of Sciences

Annotation History

Date	Name	Action	Animal Name Before Changes	Animal Name Changed to
Date	Annotation Notes
05/01/2001	Joseph W. Dougherty	taxon changed	Tridacna sp. (Clams)	Spondylus americanus (Atlantic Thorny Oyster)
05/01/2001	Tridacna is a Pacific genus -- does not exist in the Atlantic.
07/05/2009	Peter Clarkson	taxon changed	Spondylus americanus	Spondylus varius (The Water Spondylus)
07/05/2009	The mantle morphology of S. varius is very distinctive. Also, Spondylus americanus is an Atlantic rather than Pacific species; its distribution does not extend to Palau.

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