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Lyrocardium lyratum (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840) 
AphiaID: 381818

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Cardioidea (Superfamily) > Cardiidae (Family) > Laevicardiinae (Subfamily) > Lyrocardium (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Lyrocardium Meek, 1876
Parent Lyrocardium Meek, 1876
Synonymised
taxa
  Cardium kalamantanum Adams & Reeve, 1850 (synonym)
Cardium lyratum G. B. Sowerby II, 1840
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: 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 East Africa [details]
Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North Australia [details]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  Distribution: Probably also present in the Red Sea [details]

Length: L 40-60 mm [details]
Image 
Lyrocardium lyratum
Lyrocardium lyratum
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:381818
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2009-01-29 11:35:24Z  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). Lyrocardium lyratum (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381818 on 2013-05-25
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