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Cardium orbita Reeve, 1845 
AphiaID: 208518

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Cardioidea (Superfamily) > Cardiidae (Family) > Cardiinae (Subfamily) > Cardium (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Vasticardium orbita (Broderip & Sowerby I, 1833)
Rank Species
Parent Cardium Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa		  Laevicardium orbita
Sources  basis of record: 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]

basis of record (from synonym): Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Distribution Madagascar [details]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208518
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2001-12-08 16:06:46Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2002-08-06 16:41:02Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-03-29 08:51:20Z  changed  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
  
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  Citation: ter Poorten, J. (2013). Cardium orbita Reeve, 1845. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208518 on 2013-06-19
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