WoRMS taxon details
Cardita variegata Bruguière, 1792
AphiaID: 207678
AphiaID: 207678
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Archiheterodonta (Infraclass) > Carditoida (Order) > Carditoidea (Superfamily) > Carditidae (Family) > Cardita (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Cardita Bruguière, 1792 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cardita inflata Clessin, 1888 Cardita radula Reeve, 1843 Mytilicardia variegata (Bruguière, 1792) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Odhner, N.H.J. (1919). Contribution a la faune malacologique de Madagasar. Arkiv för Zoologi, K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien, 12(6): 1-52, 4 pl., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6455070 [details] basis of record: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [details] additional source: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details] additional source: Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 176 [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Cardita variegata var. turgida Krauss, 1848 accepted as Cardita caliculaeformis Deshayes in Maillard, 1863 | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] East Coast of South Africa [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] South Coast of South Africa [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (67 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Tropical Indo-Pacific, also in Australia in Kalk (1958). [details] Spelling: C. varigata in Sheppard (1984). Subgenus Mytilicardia in Dautzenberg, 1923. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207678 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Huber, M. (2013). Cardita variegata Bruguière, 1792. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207678 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||
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