Species Acrosterigma impolitum (Sowerby, 1833)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cardium impolitum Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1833. Cardium. pls 46-47 in Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) (ed). The Conchological Illustrations or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London : G.B. Sowerby (2nd). [fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1991.042, China.
• Cardium beauforti Prashad, B. 1932. The Lamellibranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Systematic Part 2. Pelecypoda. Siboga-Expéditie Report 118(34): 1-353, pls 1-9, 1 map [270, pl. 6, figs 27, 28].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA 314-4, off Lirung, Salibabu Island, between Philippines & Moluccas.
• Laevicardium (Trachycardium) couvrili Fischer-Piette, E. 1977. Révision des Cardiidae (mollusques lamellibranches). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] A, Zoologie 101: 1-212 [57, pl. 5, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHN, off Gabon, West Africa.
• Acrosterigma vlamingi Wilson, B.R. & Stevenson, S.E. 1977. Cardiidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of Western Australia. Western Australian Museum Special Publication 9: 1-114 [92, pl. 6, figs 21, 22].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 1029-66, Shark Bay, WA, Australia
  Comment: according to Lamprell Acrosterigma vlamingi is a seperate species.
• Acrosterigma rosemariensis Wilson, B.R. & Stevenson, S.E. 1977. Cardiidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of Western Australia. Western Australian Museum Special Publication 9: 1-114 [95, pl. 6, figs 23, 24].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 650-66, Rosemary Is, WA, Australia.
• Acrosterigma dampierense Wilson, B.R. & Stevenson, S.E. 1977. Cardiidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of Western Australia. Western Australian Museum Special Publication 9: 1-114 [98, pl. 6, figs 1-5].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 3334-68, Port Hedland, WA, Australia.
• Trachycardium impolitum dilmunensis Oliver, P.G. & Chesney, H.C.G. 1997. Taxonomy and description of Bivalves (Lucinoidea, Galeommatoidea, Carditoidea, Cardioidea, Tellinoidea & Myoidea) from the Arabian Sea. Journal of Conchology 36(1): 51-76 [65, figs 25, 26, 29-36].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1994.100, Trucial Coast, Persian Gulf.
• Fragum symbolicum Iredale, T. 1929. Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(3): 261–297, pls 30–31 [29 June 1929] [261].

 

Generic Combinations

• Acrosterigma impolita (Sowerby, 1833). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 30, fig. 198]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Among rocks, intertidal, marine, sandy bottom, silty sand.

Extra Ecological Information

50-150 m

 

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. [296] (CD: line 9902)

Hylleberg, J. 1994. Indo-Pacific cockles (Bivalvia:Cardiidae). Part 1. Generic diagnoses and an overview of species with mention of taxonomic problems encountered in Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 13: 113-136 [129]

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 2: A-M. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 30: 355-644 [560-562]

Hylleberg. J. Cardiidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the collection of Statens naturhistoriske Museum, previously the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen (ZMUC). Annotated and revised. Steenstrupia 31(2): 103–324 [128]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [64, fig. 198] (as Acrosterigma impolita (Sowerby, 1833); and pl. 30, fig. 201, as Acrosterigma. vlamingi)

Oliver, P.G. & Chesney, H.C.G. 1997. Taxonomy and description of Bivalves (Lucinoidea, Galeommatoidea, Carditoidea, Cardioidea, Tellinoidea & Myoidea) from the Arabian Sea. Journal of Conchology 36(1): 51-76 [65, figs 25, 26, 29-32] (as Trachycardium impolitum dilmunensis)

Reeve, L.A. 1845. Monograph of the genus Cardium. pls 13-22 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 2. [imprint date 1843] [pl. 16, fig. 80] (as Cardium impolitum)

ter Poorten, J.J. & Bouchet, P. 2014. Acrosterigma impolitum (G. B. Sowerby II, 1841). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381186 (Accessed on 2015-02-02)

Vidal, J. 1999. Taxonomic Review of the elongated cockles: genera Trachycardium, Vasticardium and Acrosterigma (Mollusca, Cardiidae). Zoosystema 21(2): 259-335, 20 figs [305, figs 10i-n, table 26]

Wilson, B.R. & Stevenson, S.E. 1977. Cardiidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of Western Australia. Western Australian Museum Special Publication 9: 1-114 [92, pl. 6, figs 21, 22, text fig. 16] (as Acrosterigma vlamingi)

 

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