WoRMS

WoRMS taxon details

Acrosterigma simplex (Spengler, 1799)

To MNHN Type collection (IM 2000-4016)

AphiaID

345693 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:345693)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Acrosterigma Dall, 1900

Original name

Cardium simplex Spengler, 1799

Synonymised names

Acrosterigma unicolor (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Cardium nebulosum Reeve, 1845 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Cardium simplex Spengler, 1799 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Cardium unicolor G. B. Sowerby II, 1834 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Laevicardium soyeri Fischer-Piette, 1977 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Trachycardium unicolor (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Cardium simplex Spengler, 1799) Spengler, L. (1799). Over det toskallede Slægt, Hiertemuslingen, Cardium Linnéi. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet, Kiøbenhavn. 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): 31 [details]

Type data

Note 'coast of Guinea' [erroneous], ZMUC, Spengler...

From editor or global species database

Type locality 'coast of Guinea' [erroneous] [details]

Type material ZMUC, Spengler coll., holotype [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Acrosterigma simplex (Spengler, 1799). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=345693 on 2025-05-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-06-06 01:38:35Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2012-07-15 20:42:05Z

checked

Rosenberg, Gary

2014-11-10 14:29:33Z

changed

ter Poorten, Jan Johan

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Cardium unicolor G. B. Sowerby II, 1834) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1834-1840). Cardium. In: The Conchological Illustrations; or coloured figures of hitherto unfigured Recent shells. London, privately published. Parts 46-51, 149-150, 177-184 fig. 1-71. Catalogue and index, [1]-8 pp. [Parts 46-51, figs 1-31 ([1833?]-1834); Parts 149-150, figs 32-39 (1839); Parts 177-184, figs 40-71 (1840); Catalogue (exact date of publication unknown but probably issued with Part 184 in 1840)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35432220
page(s): 51, fig. 29 [details]

original description (of Cardium simplex Spengler, 1799) Spengler, L. (1799). Over det toskallede Slægt, Hiertemuslingen, Cardium Linnéi. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet, Kiøbenhavn. 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): 31 [details]

original description (of Cardium nebulosum Reeve, 1845) Reeve, L. A. (1844-1845). Monograph of the genus Cardium. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 2, pl. 1-22 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1-4 [3 undated], October 1844, pl. 5-8, November 1844; pl. 9-12, December 1844; pl. 13-16, January, 1845; pl. 17-22, March 1845]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8937393
page(s): sp. 99, pl. 19 fig. 99 [details]

original description (of Laevicardium soyeri Fischer-Piette, 1977) Fischer-Piette, E. (1977). Révision des Cardiidae (Mollusques Lamellibranches). Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris (A). 101: 1-212., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57853315
page(s): 19-20, pl. 1 figs 4-7 [details]

basis of record Poorten, J.J. ter. (2024). A taxonomic iconography of living Cardiidae. Harxheim: ConchBooks, 600 pp.
page(s): 488 [details]

Other

additional source OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database. , available online at http://clade.ansp.org/obis/ [details]

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). Vita Malacologica 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]