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Meiocardia moltkiana (Gmelin, 1791) 
AphiaID: 505255

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Glossoidea (Superfamily) > Glossidae (Family) > Meiocardia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Meiocardia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857
Synonymised
taxa		  Chama moltkiana Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)
 Isocardia lamarckii Reeve, 1845
 Isocardia moltkiana (Gmelin, 1791)
 Meiocardia nishimurai Kosuge & Kase, 1994
Sources  basis of record: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.  [details]

additional source: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
page(s): 160 [details]

redescription: Matsukuma A. & Habe T. (1995) Systematic revision of living species of Meiocardia, Glossidae and Glossocardia, Trapezidae (Bivalvia). In: P. Bouchet (ed.), Résultats des campagnes MUSORSTOM, volume 14. Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle 167: 75-106. [29 December 1995]  [details]

Environment marine, brackish
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Images 
Meiocardia moltkiana
Meiocardia moltkiana
added on 2012-09-26 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Meiocardia moltkiana
Meiocardia moltkiana
added on 2012-09-26 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:505255
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2010-08-18 08:38:17Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2010-09-15 11:43:10Z  checked  Huber, Markus
2010-10-02 22:08:23Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Huber, M. (2013). Meiocardia moltkiana (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505255 on 2013-05-20
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