WoRMS taxon details
Afrocardium exochum (Melvill in Melvill & Standen, 1907)
AphiaID: 381384
AphiaID: 381384
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Cardioidea (Superfamily) > Cardiidae (Family) > Orthocardiinae (Subfamily) > Afrocardium (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Afrocardium Tomlin, 1931 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Afrocardium infantile (Nomura & Zinbo, 1934) Cardium (Acanthocardia) exochum Melvill in Melvill & Standen, 1907 Cardium infantile Nomura & Zinbo, 1934 (synonym) Cardium radula Thiele & Jaeckel, 1931 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cardium radula Deshayes, 1832; Laevicardium thielei is a replacement name) Laevicardium thielei Fischer-Piette, 1977 | ||||||||||||||||
| 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: Voskuil R.P.A. & Onverwagt W.J.H. (1991) Studies in Cardiidae. 5. The taxa introduced by E. Fischer-Piette, in 1977 in his "Révision des Cardiidae". Basteria 55: 115-122. [29 November 1991] [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | East Africa [details] Indian Ocean [details] Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Persian Gulf [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Length: L 5-9 mm [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:381384 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: ter Poorten, J. (2013). Afrocardium exochum (Melvill in Melvill & Standen, 1907). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381384 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||||||||
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