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Vepricardium multispinosum (G. B. Sowerby II, 1839) 
AphiaID: 381145

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 leve Anton, 1838 (declared nomen oblitum by Ter Poorten (2011))
 Cardium multispinosum G. B. Sowerby II, 1839 (Declared nomen protectum by Ter Poorten (2001))
 Vepricardium pulchricostatum Iredale, 1929 (synonym)
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]

from synonym: Poorten, J.J. ter, 2011 [December 21]. Designation of Cardium multispinosum G.B. Sowerby II, 1839, as a nomen protectum and its senior synonym Cardium leve Anton, 1838, as a nomen oblitum (Bivalvia, Cardiidae). Basteria 75(4-6): 104-106. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [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]

Distribution Indo-West Pacific [details]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  Length: L 40-80 mm (adult) [details]
Images 
Vepricardium multispinosum
Vepricardium multispinosum
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: checked by ter Poorten, Jan Johan on 2013-01-17 09:09:28

Vepricardium multispinosum
Vepricardium multispinosum
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:381145
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-01-23 08:08:37Z  created  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
2009-01-30 12:26:24Z  changed  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 multispinosum (G. B. Sowerby II, 1839). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381145 on 2013-05-26
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