Species Acrosterigma transcendens (Melvill & Standen, 1899)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cardium (Trachycardium) transcendens Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1899. Report on the marine Mollusca obtained during the first expedition of Prof. A.C. Haddon to the Torres Straits in 1888-89. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 27: 150-206, pls 1-2 [191, pl. 11, fig. 21].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1899.23.6, Torres Strait.
• Cardium perstriatum Kuroda, T. 1928. Catalogue of Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Amami-Oshima. Japan : Kagoshima Prefucture 125 pp. [11].
• Laevicardium pulcherrimum Sakurai, K. & Habe, T. 1966. Three new bivalves from Amami Islands south of Kyushu, Japan. Venus 4 24: 293-296 [293].

  Type data:

   Holotype NSMT NSMT-MO 48405, Kakeroma-Jima, Amami Island, Japan.

 

Generic Combinations

• Acrosterigma transcendens (Melvill & Standen, 1899). —
  Wilson, B.R. & Stevenson, S.E. 1977. Cardiidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of Western Australia. Western Australian Museum Special Publication 9: 1-114 [101, pl. 6, figs 16-20, text fig. 18]
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 30, fig. 196]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific. Natal & N.Transkei, S.Africa to Japan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Bathyal, continental shelf, continental slope, coral rubble, coral sand, marine, sand, sandy mud bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

9-350 m, fine sand and mud, also coral sand and rubble

 

General References

Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [297, CD: line 9942]

Hylleberg, J. 2004. Lexical approach to Cardiacea. Records of taxa. Illustrated and annotated records of living and fossil shells, with emphasis on the families Cardiidae and Lymnocardiidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Part 3: N-Z. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 30: 645-939 [805-806]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [64, fig. 196]

Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1899. Report on the marine Mollusca obtained during the first expedition of Prof. A.C. Haddon to the Torres Straits in 1888-89. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 27: 150-206, pls 1-2 [191, pl. 11, fig. 21] (as C. (Trachycardium) transcendens)

ter Poorten, J. 2014. Acrosterigma transcendens (Melvill & Standen, 1899). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=345694 (Accessed on 2015-02-03)

Vidal, J. 1999. Taxonomic Review of the elongated cockles: genera Trachycardium, Vasticardium and Acrosterigma (Mollusca, Cardiidae). Zoosystema 21(2): 259-335, 20 figs [308, figs 14a-d, table 27]

Wilson, B.R. & Stevenson, S.E. 1977. Cardiidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of Western Australia. Western Australian Museum Special Publication 9: 1-114 [101, pl. 6, figs 16-20, text fig. 18] (as Acrosterigma transcendens)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	CARDIIDAE	14-Feb-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		12-Apr-2011	MODIFIED