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WoRMS taxon details

Vepricardium burnupi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1897) 
AphiaID: 381089

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Cardioidea (Superfamily) > Cardiidae (Family) > Cardiinae (Subfamily) > Vepricardium (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Vepricardium Iredale, 1929
Synonymised
taxa		  Cardium burnupi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1897) (new comb)
Sources  basis of record: 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 & H. Dekker, 2002. Vepricardium vidali spec. nov. (Bivalvia, Cardiidae), from southern Arabia, Oman and Yemen. Basteria 66 (1-3): 101-105. [details]

from synonym: Spry, J.F. (1964). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Part 2: Pelecypoda (Bivalves). Tanganyika Notes and Records 63, available online at http://e-library.costech.or.tz/collect/tanzania/index/assoc/HASHb932.dir/doc.pdf [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South African Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  Length: L 30-48 mm (adult) [details]
Image 
Vepricardium burnupi
Vepricardium burnupi
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:381089
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-01-22 20:27:55Z  created  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
2010-03-29 08:44:56Z  changed  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
  
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  Citation: ter Poorten, J. (2013). Vepricardium burnupi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1897). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381089 on 2013-05-22
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