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CAAB Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Bivalvia (class) » Veneroida (order) » Cardiidae (family)

CAAB Code:	23 335023 show as JSON
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
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Regions:	Australia (inc. subantarctic territories)
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	23 335913 Vasticardium spp.
Organism Type:	a heart cockle

Taxon Notes:

A highly variable species, here we follow Huber (2010) in not recognising regional subspecies.

Identifiers:

Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:f214b181-bac2-426e-9394-d15881eccb70 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
World Register of Marine Species	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:381322 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS - also at OBIS (report and map of occurrences)

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.

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