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Vasticardium kenyanum (Cox, 1930) 
AphiaID: 381343

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Cardioidea (Superfamily) > Cardiidae (Family) > Trachycardiinae (Subfamily) > Vasticardium (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Vasticardium Iredale, 1927
Synonymised
taxa
  Acrosterigma fidele Vidal, 1992 (synonym)
Cardium (Trachycardium) kenyanum Cox, 1930
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, 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]

from synonym: Poorten, J.J. ter, 2005 [28 November]. The identity of Cardium (Trachycardium) kenyanum Cox, 1930 from Pleistocene deposits in Mombasa, Kenya (Bivalvia, Cardiidae). Basteria 69 (1-3): 9-11. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Pacific (not certain[details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  Length: 50-96 mm [details]
Image 
Vasticardium kenyanum
Vasticardium kenyanum
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:381343
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2009-01-25 10:38:16Z  created  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
2009-01-30 12:26:24Z  changed  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
  
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  Citation: ter Poorten, J. (2013). Vasticardium kenyanum (Cox, 1930). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381343 on 2013-05-23
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