History of changes

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

CARDIIDAE: Cardium mundum Reeve, 1845 [see Fragum mundum (Reeve, 1845)] — 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. 22, fig. 125] (type data: Status unknown, Lord Hood's Island)

CARDIIDAE: Fragum mundum Reeve, 1845 [misidentification; was listed from QLD]

CARDIIDAE: Frigidocardium exasperatum (Sowerby, 1841) [Australian records referred to Frigidocardium iris Huber & Poorten, 2007] — Huber, M. & J.J. ter Poorten 2007. Frigidocardium iris n. sp., a striking species from the Central Indo-Pacific, compared with Frigidocardium exasperatum (Bivalvia, Cardiidae). Visaya 2(2): 104-111 (type locality of Frigidocardium exasperatum (Sowerby, 1841 ) has been corrected from Swan River to Taiwan, and it does not occur in Australia)

CARDIIDAE: Plagiocardium Cossman, 1866 [Australian material recorded as Maoricardium] — Voskuil, R.P.A. & Onverwagt, W.J.H. 1991. Studies on Cardiidae. 3. The recent species of Maoricardium Marwick, 1944, with description of a new species. Basteria 55(1-3): 25-33 [25]

General References

Bieler, R., Carter, J.G. & Coan, E.V. 2010. Classiication of Bivalve Families. pp. 113-133 in Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families; with a classiication of bivalve families by R. Bieler, J.G. Carter & E.V. Coan. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184 [128]

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 [119]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 28]

Mikkelsen, P.M. & Bieler, R. 2008. Seashells of southern Florida. Living marine mollusks of the Florida keys and adjacent regions. Princeton & Oxford : Princeton University Press 503 pp. [288-293]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [117-127]

Poutiers, J.-M. 2006. Two new species of protocardiine cockles (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Cardiidae) from the tropical Southwest Pacific. Zoosystema 28(3): 635-654

Schneider, J.A. 1995. Phylogeny of the Cardiidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia): Protocardiinae, Laevicardiinae, Lahilliinae, Tulongocardiinae subfam. n. and Pleuriocardiinae subfam. n. Zoologica Scripta 24(4): 321-346

Schneider, J.A. 1998. Phylogeny of the Cardiidae (Bivalvia): Phylogenetic relationships and morphological evolution within the subfamilies Clinocardiinae, Lymnocardiinae, Fraginae and Tridacninae. Malacologia 40(1-2): 321-373

Schneider, J.A. 2001. Evolution and phylogenetic significance of cardioidean shell microstructure (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Journal of Paleontology 75(3): 607-643

Taylor, J.D., Williams, S.T., Glover, E.A. & Dyal, P. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of heterodont bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Heterodonta): new analyses of 18S and 28S rRNA genes. Zoologica Scripta 36(6): 587-606

Vidal, J. 2000. Classification of Cardiidae. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 21(3): 639-644

Vidal, J. 2001. Siphons and associated tentacles including eyes of Cardiidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 25(2): 405-410

Vidal, J. & Kirkendale, L. 2007. Ten new species of Cardiidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from New Caledonia and the tropical western Pacific. Zoosystema 29(1): 83-107

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [319] (Heart Cockles)

History of changes

• Incertae sedis.

History of changes

• Frigidocardium Habe, T. 1951. Genera of Japanese Shells: Pelecypoda. Kyoto : T. Habe Vol 1. 96 pp., 192 figs. [152].

  Type species:

   Cardium eos Kuroda, 1929 by original designation.

Introduction

Unplaced to subfamily as per Poorten et al. (2017).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Bouchet, P. & ter Poorten, J. 2011. Frigidocardium Habe, 1951. In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381547 (Accessed on 2017-06-23)

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 [523-524]

Keen, A.M. 1980. The pelecypod family Cardiidae: a taxonomic summary. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 1 16: 1-40 [6]

Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N589]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [124]

Poorten, J.J. ter, Kirkendale, L.A. & Poutiers, J.-M. 2017. The Cardiidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of tropical northern Australia: A synthesis of taxonomy, biodiversity and biogeography with the description of four new species. Records of the Western Australian Museum 32: 101-190

History of changes

• Cardium eos Kuroda, T. 1929. Notes and descriptions of some new and noteworthy species from Tateyama Bay in the Report of M.T. Fujita. Venus 1(3): 93-97.

Generic Combinations

• Frigidocardium eos (Kuroda, 1929). —
  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. [307]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Australia to Japan

Ecological Descriptors

In sandy mud, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

30-250 m. Also in fine sand

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. [307, CD: line 10262] (records this species from Australia, but does not give Australian distribution)

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 [501] (as synonym of F. torresi (Smith, 1885))

ter Poorten, J.J. 2013. Frigidocardium eos (Kuroda, 1929). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381549 (Accessed on 2015-01-30)

History of changes

• Frigidocardium helios ter Poorten, J. 2009. The Cardiidae of the Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project 2004 and the Panglao 2005 Deep-Sea Cruise with descriptions of four new species (Bivalvia). Vita Malacologica 8: 9-96.

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHN 30161, Santo, Vanuatu.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29)

Distribution References

History of changes