WoRMS taxon details

Corculum cardissa (Linnaeus, 1758)

To ANSP Malacology Collection in GBIF (catalog no. 54318)
To ANSP Malacology Collection in GBIF (catalog no. 54318)

216387  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216387)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
  7. Euheterodonta (Subterclass)
  8. Imparidentia (Superorder)
  9. Cardiida (Order)
  10. Cardioidea (Superfamily)
  11. Cardiidae (Family)
  12. Fraginae (Subfamily)
  13. Corculum (Genus)
  14. Corculum cardissa (Species)
accepted
Species
Cardissa alba Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cardissa spinosa Swainson, 1840 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cardium (Corculum) humanum Römer, 1869 · unaccepted > junior homonym (non Cardium humanum Linnaeus,...)  
non Cardium humanum Linnaeus, 1758
Cardium cardissa Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Cardium humanum Römer, 1869 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cardium impressum [Lightfoot], 1786 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Cardium inversum Lamarck, 1819 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cardium junoniae Lamarck, 1819 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cardium monstrosum Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (original combination)
Cardium monstrosum Chemnitz, 1782 · unaccepted > unavailable name (published in a work rejected by...)  
published in a work rejected by ICZN direction 1; available from Gmelin, 1791
Cardium protrusum [Lightfoot], 1786 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cardium replicatum L. Spengler, 1799 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cardium roseum Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (original combination)
Cardium spinosa (Swainson, 1840) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Corculum aselae Bartsch, 1947 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Corculum dolorosum Röding, 1798 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Corculum humanum Röding, 1798 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Corculum impressum ([Lightfoot], 1786) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Corculum inflatum Röding, 1798 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Corculum kirai Shikama, 1964 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Corculum levigatum Bartsch, 1947 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Corculum lorenzi M. Huber, 2013 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Corculum monstrosum (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Corculum obesum Bartsch, 1947 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Corculum roseum (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Cardium cardissa Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 678 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Note ‘In O. Asiatico’, Linnean Society of...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality ‘In O. Asiatico’ [details]
Type material Linnean Society of London A-F 0020073, syntypes  [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Corculum cardissa (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216387 on 2026-05-15
Date
action
by
1998-05-26 07:50:32Z
created
Fondo, Esther
2011-10-22 14:32:48Z
checked
Rosenberg, Gary
2014-11-20 18:36:10Z
changed
ter Poorten, Jan Johan

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Nomenclature

original description (of Cardium cardissa Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 678 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Cardium impressum [Lightfoot], 1786) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 44, 53, 155, 188 [details] 

original description (of Cardium roseum Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Cardium monstrosum Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3253 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Corculum humanum Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 189, no. 385 [details] 

original description (of Corculum dolorosum Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 189 [details] 

original description (of Corculum inflatum Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 189 [details] 

original description (of Cardium replicatum L. Spengler, 1799) Spengler, L. (1799). Over det toskallede Slægt, Hiertemuslingen, <i>Cardium</i> Linnéi. <em>Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet, Kiøbenhavn.</em> 5(1): 1-60, pl. 1., available online at https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PPN=PPN608227374_0005&DMDID=DMDLOG_0004
page(s): 52-53 [details] 

original description (of Cardium inversum Lamarck, 1819) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441
page(s): 16 [details] 

original description (of Cardium junoniae Lamarck, 1819) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441
page(s): 17 [details] 

original description (of Corculum obesum Bartsch, 1947) Bartsch, P. (1947). The little hearts (<i>Corculum</i>) of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 1(4): 221-226, pls. 1-2 [October]., available online at http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/12544
page(s): 224-225, pl. 1 fig. 2 [details] 

original description (of Corculum levigatum Bartsch, 1947) Bartsch, P. (1947). The little hearts (<i>Corculum</i>) of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 1(4): 221-226, pls. 1-2 [October]., available online at http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/12544
page(s): 226, pl. 1 fig. 1 [details] 

original description (of Corculum aselae Bartsch, 1947) Bartsch, P. (1947). The little hearts (<i>Corculum</i>) of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 1(4): 221-226, pls. 1-2 [October]., available online at http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/12544
page(s): 226, pl. 2 fig. 1 [details] 

original description (of Corculum kirai Shikama, 1964) Shikama, T. (1964). Selected shells of the world illustrated in colours (II). Hokuryūkan publishing co., Tōkyō. [10] + 212 pp., pls 1-70.
page(s): 75, textfigs 137-15,16 & 138-8. [details] 

original description (of Cardissa alba Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811) Megerle von Mühlfeld, J. K. (1811). Entwurf eines neuen System's der Schalthiergehäuse. <em>Magazin für die neuesten Entdecklungen in der gesammten Naturkunde von der Gesellschaft Naturforschaft Freunde zu Berlin.</em> 5(1): 38-72, pl. 3., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=JicVAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 52-53 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Corculum lorenzi M. Huber, 2013) Huber M. (2013) <i>Corculum lorenzi</i> n. sp., the true 7th species (Bivalvia: Cardiidae: Fraginae). <i>Conchylia</i> 43(1-4): 17-21. [March 2013]
page(s): 18-19, figs 1-5 [details] 

original description (of Cardissa spinosa Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 373 [details] 

original description (of Cardium monstrosum Chemnitz, 1782) Chemnitz, J. H. (1780-1795). <i>Neues systematisches Conchylien Cabinet</i>. Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, Nürnberg. Vol. 4 [1780]: [xxvii] + 344 pp. + 1 (errata), pl. 122-159; vol. 5 [1781]: [xxiv] + 324 p., pl. 160-193; vol. 6 [1782]: [xii] + 375 pp., pl. 1–36; vol. 7 [1784], [xii] + 356 pp., pl.. 37–69; vol. 8 [1785], xvi + 372 pp., pl. 70–102; vol. 9(1) [1786], xii + 151 pp., pl. 103–116; vol. 9(2) [1786], [xxvi] + 194 pp., pl. 117–136; vol. 10 [1788], [xx] + 376 pp., pl. 137–173; vol. 11 [1795], [xx] + 310 pp., pl. 174–213 [Work placed on the Official Index by ICZN Direction 1 (1954)] [volumes 1-3 are by F.H.W. Martini]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/43760 [details] 

original description (of Cardium (Corculum) humanum Römer, 1869) Römer, E. (1868-1869). Die Familie der Herzmuscheln, Cardiacea. In: Küster, H.C., Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Neu herausgegeben und vervollständigt, 10 (2): 1-124, pls 1-14. Nürnberg (Bauer & Raspe) [p. 1-24, pls 1-7, 1868; 25-124, pls 8-14, 1869].
page(s): 116-117, pl. 6 figs 5-6, 9-10 [details] 

original description (of Cardium protrusum [Lightfoot], 1786) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 178 [details] 

Other

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). <i>Vita Malacologica</i> 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] 

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
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Length 50-80 mm [details]

Type locality ‘In O. Asiatico’ [details]

Type material Linnean Society of London A-F 0020073, syntypes  [details]
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LanguageName 
English true heart cockleheart cockle  [details]
German HerzmuschelFlache HerzmuschelEchte Herzmuschel  [details]
Japanese リュウキュウアオイガイモドキ [from synonym]リュウキュウアオイインドアオイガイ [from synonym]  [details]
To ANSP Malacology Collection in GBIF (catalog no. 54318) 
To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Corculum impressum ([Lightfoot], 1786))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Corculum monstrosum (Gmelin, 1791))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Corculum monstrosum (Gmelin, 1791))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Corculum impressum ([Lightfoot], 1786))
To Conchology (Corculum cardissa ALBINO) 
To Conchology (Corculum cardissa FLAMES) 
To Conchology (Corculum cardissa FREAK) 
To Conchology (Corculum cardissa GIANT) 
To Conchology (Corculum cardissa LARGE) 
To Conchology (Corculum cardissa ORANGE & BROWN) 
To Conchology (Corculum cardissa RED) 
To Conchology (Corculum cardissa SET) 
To Conchology (Corculum cardissa SPECIAL COLOR) 
To Conchology (Corculum cardissa SPECKLED FREAK) 
To Conchology (Corculum cardissa SPECKLED) 
To Conchology (Corculum cardissa with Petaloconchus renisectus) 
To Conchology (Corculum cardissa YELLOW FREAK) 
To Conchology (Corculum cardissa YELLOW) 
To Conchology (Corculum cardissa) 
To Conchology (Corculum lorenzi) (from synonym Corculum lorenzi M. Huber, 2013)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Corculum cardissa) 
To GenBank (38 nucleotides; 19 proteins) 
To GenBank (38 nucleotides; 19 proteins) (from synonym Cardium cardissa Linnaeus, 1758)
To Malacopics (Corculum cardissa (Linnaeus, 1758) Philippines, Central Visayas, Cebu, collected 199... 
To Malacopics (Corculum cardissa (Linnaeus, 1758) Philippines, Central Visayas, Cebu, ex coll. J. T... 
To Malacopics (Corculum cardissa (Linnaeus, 1758) Philippines, Central Visayas, Cebu, ex coll. J.Ph... 
To Malacopics (Corculum cardissa (Linnaeus, 1758) Solomon Islands, Malaita, Ata'a, ex coll. F.J.A. ... 
To Malacopics (Corculum cardissa (Linnaeus, 1758) Visayan Sea, by fishing, collected 1987, ex coll.... 
To Malacopics (Corculum cardissa (Linnaeus, 1758)) 
To Malacopics (Corculum cardissa (Linnaeus, 1758)) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Corculum aselae Holotype USNM 543566) (from synonym Corculum aselae Bartsch, 1947)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Corculum levigatum Holotype USNM 543565) (from synonym Corculum levigatum Bartsch, 1947)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Corculum obesum Holotype USNM 543559) (from synonym Corculum obesum Bartsch, 1947)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 877500 Exterior) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 877500 Interior) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Corculum levigatum Bartsch, 1947)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Corculum obesum Bartsch, 1947)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Cardium cardissa Linnaeus, 1758)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Corculum aselae Bartsch, 1947)
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