WoRMS taxon details
Acanthocardia aculeata (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 138990
AphiaID: 138990
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Cardioidea (Superfamily) > Cardiidae (Family) > Cardiinae (Subfamily) > Acanthocardia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Acanthocardia J. E. Gray, 1851 Eucardium P. Fischer, 1887 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Acanthocardia J. E. Gray, 1851 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cardium aculcatum Aradas & Benoit, 1870 (synonym) Cardium aculeatum Linnaeus, 1758 Cardium spinosum J. Sowerby, 1804 (Junior homonym of Cardium spinosum Lightfoot, 1786) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Voskuil, R.P.A.& W.J.H. Onverwagt, 1989. Inventarisation of the recent European and West African Cardiidae. Gloria Maris 28: 49-96. [details] additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North Africa [details] North East Atlantic [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Africa [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Classification: Often credited to Linnaeus (1767) but the name is validly introduced in an erratum, p. 824, of Linnaeus (1758) "p. 679 line 62, muricatum read aculeatum", this because there is another Cardium muricatum (still in current use) on p. 680. [details] Length: 50-78 mm [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138990 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S.; ter Poorten, J. (2013). Acanthocardia aculeata (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138990 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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