WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Acanthocardia paucicostata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834)

Acanthocardia paucicostata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834)
AphiaID: 138993

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

Parent

Acanthocardia J. E. Gray, 1851

Synonymised
taxa

Acanthocardia (Sphaerocardium) ciliaris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acanthocardia (Sphaerocardium) ciliaris milaschewitschi Kafanov, 1980
Cardium paucicostatum G. B. Sowerby II, 1834
Cardium paucicostatum var. alba Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1892
Cardium paucicostatum var. impedita Milaschewitsch, 1909 (junior homonym of Cardium impeditum Deshayes, 1858)
Cardium paucicostatum var. pallida Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1892
Cardium paucicostatum var. producta Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1892

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: Zamouri-Langar, N.; Chouba, L.; Ajjabi Chebil, L.; Mrabet, R.; El Abed, A. (2011). Les coquillages bivalves des côtes tunisiennes. Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer: Salammbô. ISBN 978-9938-9512-0-2. 128 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

from synonym: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
Dutch	tere hartschelp	[details]
Modern Greek (1453-)	Ραβδωτή μεθύστρα	[details]

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Distribution

Bizerte Lagoon [details]
Boughrara Lagoon [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Goletta [details]
Mahres [details]
Skhira [details]
Tunis Gulf [details]
Tunis Lagoon [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Zeeland [details]

Links

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales
To PESI

Note

Length: L 30-50 mm (adult) [details]

Images

Acanthocardia paucicostata
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam (

)
qualitystatus: checked by ter Poorten, Jan Johan on 2013-01-29 19:54:02

Acanthocardia paucicostata
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam (

)
qualitystatus: checked by ter Poorten, Jan Johan on 2013-01-29 19:54:08

Acanthocardia paucicostata (Sowerby G.B. II, 1841)
Specimen from La Goulette, Tunisia (soft bottoms 10-15 m, 23.12.2009), actual size 25.8 mm.
added on 2013-02-05 - author: Antit, Mouna
qualitystatus: checked by Gofas, Serge on 2013-02-05 13:38:33

LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138993

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z	created	Gofas, Serge
2009-01-22 08:46:58Z	changed	ter Poorten, Jan Johan
2010-03-29 08:44:56Z	changed	ter Poorten, Jan Johan
2012-12-09 10:11:31Z	changed	ter Poorten, Jan Johan

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Citation: ter Poorten, J.; Gofas, S. (2013). Acanthocardia paucicostata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138993 on 2013-05-19

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