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Acrosterigma transcendens (Melvill & Standen, 1899) 
AphiaID: 345694

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Cardioidea (Superfamily) > Cardiidae (Family) > Trachycardiinae (Subfamily) > Acrosterigma (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Acrosterigma Dall, 1900
Synonymised
taxa		  Cardium (Trachycardium) transcendens Melvill & Standen, 1899
 Laevicardium pulcherrimum Sakurai & Habe, 1966 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Indo-Pacific Marine Molluscs, available online at http://clade.ansp.org/obis/ [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]

additional source: Poorten, J.J. ter, 2009. The Cardiidae of the Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project 2004 and the Panglao 2005 Deep-Sea Cruise with descriptions of four new species (Bivalvia). Vita Malacologica 8: 9-96 [21 November 2009] . Available online at http://dare.uva.nl/record/340850, available online at http://dare.uva.nl/record/340850 [details]

Environment marine
Distribution South Africa (country) [details]
South Pacific [details]
Links To Barcode of Life
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Note  Length: 25-32 mm [details]
Image 
Acrosterigma transcendens
Acrosterigma transcendens
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:345694
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-06-06 01:38:35Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-03-29 08:44:56Z  changed  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
  
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  Citation: ter Poorten, J. (2013). Acrosterigma transcendens (Melvill & Standen, 1899). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=345694 on 2013-05-26
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