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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Bivalvia (class) » Veneroida (order) » Cardiidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 23 335041 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Nemocardium bechei (Reeve, 1847) |
| CAAB category: | 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. |
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| Family: | 23 335 Cardiidae (heart cockles) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | [a heart cockle] | |
| Organism Type: | a heart cockle | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
23 335912
Nemocardium spp. |
| Taxon Notes: | This species does not occur in Australian waters. All records of N. bechei from Australia are mis-identifications of N. probatum. See Poorten (2013). | ||||
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| Record source: | Lamprell, K. Whitehead, T., 1992, Bivalves of Australia. Volume 1. Crawford House Press, Bathurst, N.S.W. |
| Scientific Name verified against: | Poorten, J.J.T., 2013. Revision of the Recent species of the genus Nemocardium Meek, 1876 (Bivalvia, Cardiidae), with descriptions of three new species., Basteria, Vol. 77(4-6): 45-73. |