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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Bivalvia (class) » Veneroida (order) » Cardiidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 23 335023 | ||
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Vasticardium elongatum (Bruguière, 1789) | ||
| CAAB category: | 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups | ||
| Family: | Cardiidae (heart cockles) - show full list | ||
| Common Name: | [a heart cockle] | ||
| Recent Synonyms: | Acrosterigma elongata Acrosterigma wilsoni Vasticardium elongatum wilsoni Acrosterigma elongatum wilsoni Acrosterigma elongatum coralense Vasticardium elongatum coralense | ||
| Organism Type: | a heart cockle | ||
| Taxon Notes: | A highly variable species, here we follow Huber (2010) in not recognising regional subspecies. | ||
Identifiers: |
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| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list:  Standard Fish Names List: | ||
| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) | ||
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | ||
| Record source: | Lamprell, K. Whitehead, T., 1992, Bivalves of Australia. Volume 1. Crawford House Press, Bathurst, N.S.W. | ||
| Scientific Name verified against: | Huber, M., 2010, Compendium of Bivalves. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany 901pp. |
Record details
Record entered on 30-Aug-2001 00:00 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Record modified on 4-Jul-2013 09:28 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Modification description: correct spelling
Modification history:
04-JUL-2013: correct spelling (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
(previous genus name: Acrosterigma)
(previous species name: elongata)
Record modified on 4-Jul-2013 09:28 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Modification description: correct spelling
Modification history:
04-JUL-2013: correct spelling (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
(previous genus name: Acrosterigma)
(previous species name: elongata)