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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVasticardium orbita (Broderip & Sowerby I, 1833) 
AphiaID: 466608

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBivalvia (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeterodonta (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuheterodonta (Infraclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVeneroida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCardioidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCardiidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTrachycardiinae (Subfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVasticardium (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVasticardium orbita (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVasticardium Iredale, 1927
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCardium orbita Reeve, 1845
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLaevicardium orbita
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTrachycardium orbita (Broderip & G.B. Sowerby I, 1833)
Sources  original description Sowerby, G.B. I, 1833. [Characters of new species of shells forming part of the collection made by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America, and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1833, 82–85. (8 September) [details]

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Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution 
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorWest Pacific [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Notes 
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorType locality French Polynesia, Tuamotu Archipelago, Anaa Isl., in fine coral sand on the reefs. Coll. Cuming [details]

Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorType material NHMUK 20130518, syntypes  [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:466608
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2010-03-26 10:29:44Z  created  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
2014-11-16 11:30:45Z  changed  ter Poorten, Jan Johan
  
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  Citation: ter Poorten, J. (2014). Vasticardium orbita (Broderip & Sowerby I, 1833). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=466608 on 2015-01-25
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