WoRMS name details
Cardium edule Linnaeus, 1758
152921 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152921)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
- Subspecies Cardium edule picolina Kaltenbach, 1943 accepted as Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cardium edule var. altior Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1892 accepted as Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cardium edule var. batesoni Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1892 accepted as Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cardium edule var. fulva Dautzenberg, 1890 accepted as Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cardium edule var. intermedia Milaschewitsch, 1916 accepted as Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cardium edule var. libenicense Brusina, 1870 accepted as Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cardium edule var. loppensi Mars, 1951 accepted as Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cardium edule var. maculata Dautzenberg, 1890 accepted as Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior homonym, Invalid: junior homonym of Cardium maculatum Gmelin, 1791)
- Variety Cardium edule var. maeotica Milaschewitsch, 1908 accepted as Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cardium edule var. magna Golubjatniknov, 1908 accepted as Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior homonym, non Cardium magnum Linnaeus, 1758; nec Born, 1778)
- Variety Cardium edule var. major Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1892 accepted as Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cardium edule var. mareotica Pallary, 1912 accepted as Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cardium edule var. nuciformis Milaschewitsch, 1916 accepted as Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior homonym, non Cardium nuciforme A. d’Orbigny, 1850)
- Variety Cardium edule var. paludosa Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1892 accepted as Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cardium edule var. picta Milaschewitsch, 1916 accepted as Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cardium edule var. quadrata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1892 accepted as Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cardium edule var. regularis Pallary, 1900 accepted as Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Cardium edule var. umbonatum S. V. Wood, 1853 accepted as Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior homonym, non Cardium umbonatum J. Sowerby, 1817)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
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MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cardium edule Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152921 on 2026-09-02
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Nomenclature
original description
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 681 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 681 [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Issel, A. (1865). Catalogo dei molluschi raccolti dalla missione italiana in Persia aggiuntavi la descrizione delle specie nuove o poco note. Stamperia Reale, Torino, 55 pp, pls 1-3., available online at http://www.internetculturale.it/it/16/search/viewresource?id=oai:www.sba.unifi.it:12:IC0003:RMR0024873&case=&instanceName=mag&descSource=Biblioteca%20digitale&descSourceLevel2=SBA%20-%20Firenze
page(s): 48; note: Issel lists variety rustica Chemnitz which is unavailable. [details]
additional source Martens, E. von. (1879). Eine eigenthümliche Missbildung von <i>Cardium edule</i>. <em>Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin.</em> 1879: 24 [20 May]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7795560 [details]
page(s): 48; note: Issel lists variety rustica Chemnitz which is unavailable. [details]
additional source Martens, E. von. (1879). Eine eigenthümliche Missbildung von <i>Cardium edule</i>. <em>Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin.</em> 1879: 24 [20 May]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7795560 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
