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Acrosterigma pristipleura (Dall, 1901) 
AphiaID: 381249

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) pristipleura Dall, 1901 (original combination)
 Cardium hornelli Tomlin, 1928 (unnecessary replacement name for C. maculatum G.B. Sowerby II, 1840)
 Cardium maculatum G. B. Sowerby II, 1840 (invalid: junior homonym of Cardium maculatum Gmelin, 1791; C. pristipleura and C. hornelli are both replacement names)
 Cardium maculosum G. B. Sowerby I, 1833 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cardium maculosum Wood, 1815; C. maculatum is a replacement name)
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]

redescription: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details]

basis of record (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 California [details]
Ecuadorean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  Length: 50-70 mm [details]
Image 
Acrosterigma pristipleura
Acrosterigma pristipleura
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:381249
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2009-01-23 21:30:52Z  created  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
  
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  Citation: ter Poorten, J. (2013). Acrosterigma pristipleura (Dall, 1901). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381249 on 2013-06-20
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