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Cardium costatum Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 224543

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Cardioidea (Superfamily) > Cardiidae (Family) > Cardiinae (Subfamily) > Cardium (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Cardium Linnaeus, 1758
 Cardium (Tropidocardium) Römer, 1868
Parent Cardium Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: 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]

basis of record: Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Ardovini, R.; Cossignani, T. (2004). West African seashells (including Azores, Madeira and Canary Is.) = Conchiglie dell'Africa Occidentale (incluse Azzorre, Madeira e Canarie). English-Italian edition. L'Informatore Piceno: Ancona, Italy. ISBN 88-86070-11-X. 319 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: 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]

taxonomy source: Poorten, J.J. ter, 2007 [November 3]. Notes on the identity of Cardium costatum Linnaeus, 1758, with the description of Cardium maxicostatum spec. nov. from tropical West Africa (Bivalvia, Cardiidae). Basteria 71 (1-3): 57-70. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English great ribbed cockle  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Cacuaco [details]
Cape Esterias [details]
Dakar [details]
Mayumba [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (121 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Notes  authority: Bernard wrote Linné, 1758 [details]

Length: L 80-110 mm (adult) [details]
Image 
Cardium costatum
Cardium costatum
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224543
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-03-16 08:22:30Z  created  Nsiangango, Silvi Edith
2006-04-06 06:36:28Z  changed  Vandepitte, Leen
2009-01-22 08:46:58Z  changed  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
2012-12-09 10:11:31Z  changed  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
  
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  Citation: ter Poorten, J. (2013). Cardium costatum Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224543 on 2013-05-24
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