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Laevicardium Swainson, 1840 
AphiaID: 137738

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Cardioidea (Superfamily) > Cardiidae (Family) > Laevicardiinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Cardium oblongum Gmelin, 1791 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Laevicardiinae Keen, 1936
Synonymised
taxa
  Cardium (Laevicardium) Swainson, 1840
Liocardium Agassiz, 1846
Sources  basis of record: Poorten, J.J. ter, 2005. Outline of a systematic index - Recent Cardiidae (Lamarck, 1809). VISAYA net. (Updated 2009 for WoRMS), available online at http://www.conchology.be/en/shelltopics/visaya-net/date.php?year=2005 [details]

additional source: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details]

additional source: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS[details]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Laevicardium attenuatum (G. B. Sowerby II, 1841)
Species Laevicardium biradiatum (Bruguière, 1789)
Species Laevicardium brasilianum (Lamarck, 1819)
Species Laevicardium castaneum Vidal, 2005
Species Laevicardium clarionense (Hertlein & Strong, 1947)
Species Laevicardium crassum (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Laevicardium elatum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
Species Laevicardium lobulatum (Deshayes, 1855)
Species Laevicardium mortoni (Conrad, 1831)
Species Laevicardium multipunctatum (Sowerby I in Broderip & Sowerby I, 1833)
Species Laevicardium oblongum (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Laevicardium pictum (Ravenel, 1861)
Species Laevicardium pristis (Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1827)
Species Laevicardium serratum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Laevicardium substriatum (Conrad, 1837)
Species Laevicardium sybariticum (Dall, 1886)

Species Laevicardium rudentis Fischer-Piette, 1977 (species inquirenda)

Species Laevicardium nemo Fischer-Piette, 1977 (nomen dubium)
Species Laevicardium tertium Fischer-Piette, 1977 (nomen dubium)

Species Laevicardium angmagsalikense Voskuil & Onverwagt, 1993 accepted as Laevicardium pristis (Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1827)
Species Laevicardium apicinum Carpenter, 1864 accepted as Laevicardium substriatum (Conrad, 1837)
Species Laevicardium couvrili Fischer-Piette, 1977 accepted as Acrosterigma impolitum (G. B. Sowerby II, 1841)
Species Laevicardium elenense (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840) accepted as Laevicardium substriatum (Conrad, 1837)
Species Laevicardium fiski Richards, 1954 accepted as Laevicardium pictum (Ravenel, 1861)
Species Laevicardium flavum (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Vasticardium flavum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Laevicardium gaillardi Fischer-Piette, 1977 accepted as Acrosterigma cygnorum (Deshayes, 1855)
Species Laevicardium interrogatorium Fischer-Piette, 1977 accepted as Keenocardium californiense (Deshayes, 1839)
Species Laevicardium laevigatum (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Fulvia (Fulvia) laevigata (Linnaeus, 1758) represented as Fulvia laevigata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Laevicardium norvegicum (Spengler, 1799) accepted as Laevicardium crassum (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Laevicardium orbita accepted as Cardium orbita Reeve, 1845 accepted as Vasticardium orbita (Broderip & Sowerby I, 1833)
Species Laevicardium pulcherrimum Sakurai & Habe, 1966 accepted as Acrosterigma transcendens (Melvill & Standen, 1899)
Species Laevicardium rubropictum Habe & Kosuge, 1966 accepted as Laevicardium biradiatum (Bruguière, 1789)
Species Laevicardium soyeri Fischer-Piette, 1977 accepted as Acrosterigma simplex (Spengler, 1799)
Species Laevicardium sueziense accepted as Cardium sueziensis Issel, 1869 accepted as Fragum sueziense (Issel, 1869)
Species Laevicardium thielei Fischer-Piette, 1977 accepted as Afrocardium exochum (Melvill in Melvill & Standen, 1907)
Species Laevicardium trinitatis Tomlin, 1929 accepted as Laevicardium pristis (Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1827)
Environment marine
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137738
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2009-01-30 08:34:00Z  changed  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
2009-01-30 12:26:24Z  changed  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
2012-07-23 02:45:35Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; ter Poorten, J.; Gofas, S. (2013). Laevicardium Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137738 on 2013-06-20
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