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WoRMS taxon detailsDinocardium robustum ([Lightfoot], 1786)
156843 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156843)
accepted
Species
Cardium carolinensis Conrad, 1863 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cardium maculatum Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cardium magnum Born, 1778 · unaccepted > junior homonym (non Cardium magnum Linnaeus,...)
non Cardium magnum Linnaeus, 1758 Cardium obliquum Spengler, 1799 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cardium robustum [Lightfoot], 1786 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Cardium ventricosum Bruguière, 1789 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Dinocardium robustum hazeli Ward & Blackwelder, 1987 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Dinocardium robustum vanhyningi Clench & L. C. Smith, 1944 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine,
recent + fossil
(of Cardium robustum [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): 58 [details]
Note ‘Florida’ (Lightfoot, 1786: 58). Type...
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Type locality ‘Florida’ (Lightfoot, 1786: 58). Type figure: Born (1780: pl. 3 fig. 5). ‘The figure in Lister (1687: pl. 328 fig. 165) was recorded from Campeche, Mexico. This latter locality can be accepted as the type locality’ (Clench & Smith, 1944: 10) [details]
Type material Unknown [details]
Distribution Virginia to North Florida, Texas and Mexico
Distribution Virginia to North Florida, Texas and Mexico [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dinocardium robustum ([Lightfoot], 1786). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156843 on 2025-05-17
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Cardium magnum Born, 1778) Born, I. Von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]; (Kraus)., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890 page(s): 34 [details] original description (of Cardium ventricosum Bruguière, 1789) Bruguière, J. G. (1789-1792). <i>Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers</i>, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, <i>Zootaxa</i>, 166: 37; <i>Zootaxa</i>, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006 page(s): 228 [details] original description (of Cardium maculatum Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 page(s): 3255 [details] original description (of Cardium obliquum 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): 23-24, pl. 1 fig. 3a-b [details] original description (of Cardium robustum [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): 58 [details] original description (of Dinocardium robustum vanhyningi Clench & L. C. Smith, 1944) Clench, W. J. & Smith, L. C. (1944). The family Cardiidae in the Western Atlantic. <em>Johnsonia.</em> 1(13): 1-32., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41114039 page(s): 11-12 [details] original description (of Dinocardium robustum hazeli Ward & Blackwelder, 1987 †) Ward, L.W. & Blackwelder, B.W. (1987). Late Pliocene and early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at the Lee Creek Mine. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology.</em> 61: 113-283., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58085640 page(s): 153-154, pl. 17 figs 5-6 [details] Available for editors  [request]original description (of Cardium carolinensis Conrad, 1863 †) Conrad, T. A. (1863). Catalogue of the Miocene shells of the Atlantic slope. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 14: 559-586., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1952033 page(s): 576 [details] basis of record Poorten, J.J. ter. (2024). A taxonomic iconography of living Cardiidae. Harxheim: ConchBooks, 600 pp. page(s): 368 [details] Otheradditional source
Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M. (2025). A taxonomic update for "Seashells of Southern Florida – Bivalves" (Mikkelsen and Bieler, 2007) with nomenclatural notes on other bivalve species. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 139(1): 1-27.
page(s): 13 [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details] Available for editors [request] Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Distribution Virginia to North Florida, Texas and Mexico [details]Length L 100-120 mm (adult) [details] Type locality ‘Florida’ (Lightfoot, 1786: 58). Type figure: Born (1780: pl. 3 fig. 5). ‘The figure in Lister (1687: pl. 328 fig. 165) was recorded from Campeche, Mexico. This latter locality can be accepted as the type locality’ (Clench & Smith, 1944: 10) [details] Type material Unknown [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dinocardium robustum) To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) To Malacopics (Dinocardium robustum ([Lightfoot], 1786) United States, Florida, low tide, sand fla... To Malacopics (Dinocardium robustum ([Lightfoot], 1786)) To MNHN Fossil collection (Cardium obliquum LAMARCK, 1805; Figuré; F.B22342) (from synonym Cardium obliquum Spengler, 1799) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Dinocardium robustum vanhyningi Clench & L. C. Smith, 1944) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS |
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