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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAcrosterigma attenuatum (G. B. Sowerby II, 1841) 
AphiaID: 345700

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBivalvia (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeterodonta (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuheterodonta (Infraclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorImparidentia (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCardiida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCardioidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCardiidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTrachycardiinae (Subfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAcrosterigma (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAcrosterigma attenuatum (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAcrosterigma Dall, 1900
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCardium attenuatum G. B. Sowerby II, 1841
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCardium attenuatum G. B. Sowerby II, 1841 (original combination)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLaevicardium attenuatum (G. B. Sowerby II, 1841)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVasticardium attenuatum (Sowerby, 1841)
Sources  original description Sowerby, G. B. II. (1841). [An extensive series of new species of the genus Cardium was exhibited by Mr Cuming ...]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 8 (92): 105-111 (May 1841); Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 1, 7 (46): 506-511 (1 August 1841).  [details]

new combination reference Vidal J. 1999. - Taxonomic review of the elongated cockles: genera Trachycardium, Vasticardium and Acrosterigma (Mollusca, Cardiidae). Zoosystema 21(2): 259-335 [details]

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Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution 
From other sources
Red Sea
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorRed Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
(no group)
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEast Africa [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorWest Pacific [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Notes 
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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorType locality Labelled ‘Ceylon, Zanzibar, Philippines, M.C.’ although only Ceylon [Sri Lanka] is mentioned in the original description. Coll. Cuming [details]

Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorType material NHMUK 197126, lectotype [details]
Images Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show unreviewed]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:345700
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-06-06 01:38:35Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-04-02 10:21:04Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2013-11-08 06:39:57Z  changed  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
2014-10-30 19:52:19Z  changed  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
  
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  Citation: ter Poorten, J. (2015). Acrosterigma attenuatum (G. B. Sowerby II, 1841). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=345700 on 2016-09-27
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