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Laevicardium mortoni (Conrad, 1831) 
AphiaID: 156782

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Cardioidea (Superfamily) > Cardiidae (Family) > Laevicardiinae (Subfamily) > Laevicardium (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Laevicardium Swainson, 1840
Synonymised
taxa
  Cardium mortoni Conrad, 1831
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: Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English morton eggcockle  [details]
English yellow eggcockle  [details]
Distribution Belize [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Cuba [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Lesser Antilles [details]
Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Puerto Rico [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details]

Length: L 15-25 mm [details]
Image 
Laevicardium mortoni
Laevicardium mortoni
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156782
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-19 14:10:07Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2009-01-28 08:43:24Z  changed  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
  
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  Citation: ter Poorten, J. (2013). Laevicardium mortoni (Conrad, 1831). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156782 on 2013-05-24
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