• 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 [126]
• 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.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

CARDITIDAE: Cardita bicolor Lamarck, 1819 [original combination; see Cardites bicolor (Lamarck, 1819)] — Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [23]

CARDITIDAE: Cardita calyculata (Linnaeus, 1758) [Australian records refer to Cardita aviculina Lamarck, 1819] — 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. (named applied to Mediterranean and North Atlantic bivalves)

CARDITIDAE: Cardita castanea Deshayes, 1854 — Deshayes, G.P. 1854. Descriptions of twenty new species of the genus Cardita, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 20 for 1852: 100-103 [“received from the printer” 23 May, 1854] [102, pl. 17, fig. 11] (original combination; see Cardites castanea (Deshayes, 1854))

CARDITIDAE: Cardita jukesii Deshayes, 1854 — Deshayes, G.P. 1854. Descriptions of twenty new species of the genus Cardita, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 20 for 1852: 100-103 [“received from the printer” 23 May, 1854] [101, pl. 17, fig. 14] (original combination with type locality given as "Hab. Australia"); 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. [654] (listed as synonym of Cardites rufus (Deshayes in Laborde & Linant 1830) which is restricted to Red Sea; type locality corrected accordingly to the Red Sea)

CARDITIDAE: Cardita lutea Hutton, 1880 [original combination; see Venericardia lutea (Hutton, 1880)] — Hutton, F.W. 1880. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Wellington : Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department 224 pp. [159]

CARDITIDAE: Cardites bicolor (Lamarck, 1819) [Australian records are misidentifications; Huber (2010) treats this as a valid species, but not recorded from Australia] — Lamy, M.E. 1916. Notes sur les espèces rangées par Lamarck dans les genres Venericardia et Cardita. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 22(1 & 2): 50-58, 115-121 [57] (misidentification); Oliver, P.G. 1982. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Parts 8 & 9. Carditacea and Crassatellacea. Cardiff : National Museum of Wales pp. 1-10 (pt. 8); pp. 1-6 (pt. 9). [7] (misidentification); 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.

CARDITIDAE: Cardites castanea (Deshayes, 1854) — 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. [654] (Huber reports that although this species was described from Australia it has never been recognised in Australia; Cardita castanea Deshayes, 1854 listed as a synonym of Cardites rufus (Deshayes in Laborde & Linant 1830) which is restricted to Red Sea; type locality originally given as “Hab. Australia” by Deshayes (1954), but has now been corrected to the Red Sea)

CARDITIDAE: Cardites Link, 1807 — 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. (there are no species of Cardites listed as from Australia)

CARDITIDAE: Venericardia lutea (Hutton, 1880) [synonym of New Zealand endemic Pleuromeris zelandica (G.P. Deshayes 1854)] — Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [351] (misidentification; see Huber (2010)); 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.

CARDITIDAE: Venericardia megastropha Gray, 1825 [listed by Huber (2010) as Strophocardia megastropha (J.E. Gray 1825), restricted to Panamic province, central America] — Hanley, S.C.T. 1842. An illustrated and descriptive catalogue of recent bivalve shells. London : Williams & Norgate 144 pp. [129] (listed as “New Holland ?”; misidentification); 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.

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part A) pp. xvi, 1-563. [322-324]

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 [126]

Bouchet, P. 2011. Carditidae Férussac, 1822. In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22997 (Accessed on 2017-06-01)

Hain, S. 1985. Beitrage zur Morphologie, Systematik, Zoogeographie umd Phylogenie der familie Carditidae (Bivalvia). Diplomarbeit am Fachbereich Biligie der Philipps-Univ. Marburg (Lahn) 1985: 1-352

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. [249, 652]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 25 text]

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. [176-179]

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] [N548]

History of changes

History of changes

• Centrocardita Sacco, F. 1899. I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XXVII. Torino : Carlo Clausen 102 pp., 14 pls. [14].

  Type species:

   Chama aculeata Poli, 1795 by original designation.

Introduction

Lamprell and Whitehead (1992) identified Centrocardita cf. hirasei (Dall, 1918) (as Glans (Centrocardita) cf hirasei Dall, 1918) from Australia, which may represent an undescribed species.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

General References

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [756]

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. [656]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [56] (pl. 26, fig. 165)

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] [N551]

History of changes

• Cardita rosulenta Tate, R. 1887. Descriptions of some new species of South Australian marine and fresh-water Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 9: 62-75 [69, pl. 5, fig. 3; 100, no. 114].

Generic Combinations

• Venericardia rosulenta (Tate, 1887).
• Centrocardita rosulenta (Tate, 1887).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• "Venericardia" rosulenta Tate, 1887. —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 26, fig. 169]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, 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. [256]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [56]

History of changes

• Cardita squamigera Deshayes, G.P. 1832. Title not known. Mag. Zool. Guérin 1831. [pl. 10].
• Cardita cardioides Reeve, L.A. 1843. Monograph of the genus Cardita. pls 1-9 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 1. [fig. 49].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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.

Generic Combinations

• Venericardia cardioides (Reeve, 1843).
• Glans squamigera (Deshayes, 1854).
• Centrocardita squamigera (Deshayes, 1832).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• "Venericardia" cardioides Reeve, 1843. —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [56, pl. 26, fig. 166]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

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. [657] (restricts Australian occurence to Cape Jaubert, WA, and synonymises cardioides)

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 26, fig. 166] (as "Venericardia" cardioides)

Odhner, N.H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia. 1910–1913, pt XVII, Mollusca. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(16): 1–115 pls 1–3 [Date published 19 Sept. 1917] [24]

Oliver, P.G. 1982. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Parts 8 & 9. Carditacea and Crassatellacea. Cardiff : National Museum of Wales pp. 1-10 (pt. 8); pp. 1-6 (pt. 9). [5]

History of changes

• Cyclocardia Conrad, 1867.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

General References

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] [N551]

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] [N551]

History of changes

• Cardita astartoides Martens, E. 1878. Einige conchylien aus den kalteren meeresgegenden der südlichen eidhalfte. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1878: 20-26 [25].
• Cardita antarctica Smith, E.A. 1907. Mollusca. V. — Lamellibranchiata. National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904, Natural History 2: 7 pp.
• Cardita intermedia Thiele, J. 1912. Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln. pp. 183-285, pls 11-19 in Thiele, J. (ed). Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903. Berlin : Georg Reimer Vol. 13. [230, pl. 18 fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB Moll63.106 & Moll63.247 dry valves and 4 ethanol specimens, Kerguelen Islands.

  Type locality references:

  Engl, W. 2012. Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim : Conchbooks 402 pp. [53].
• Cardita (Cyclocardia) intermedia Thiele, J. 1912. Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln. pp. 183-285, pls 11-19 in Thiele, J. (ed). Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903. Berlin : Georg Reimer Vol. 13. [230, pl. 18, fig. 9].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Engl, W. 2012. Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim : Conchbooks 402 pp. [53-54, pl. 9 fig. 1]

Generic Combinations

• Cyclocardia astartoides (Martens, 1878). —
  Dell, R.K. 1990. Antarctic Mollusca: with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27: 1–311 [59]
• Venericardia astartoides (Martens, 1878). —
  Dell, R.K. 1990. Antarctic Mollusca: with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27: 1–311 [59]
• Venericardia (Cyclocardia) astartoides (Martens, 1878). —
  Dell, R.K. 1990. Antarctic Mollusca: with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27: 1–311 [59]
• Venericardia astartoides (Martens, 1878). —
  Hedley, C. 1916. Mollusca. Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14, Scientific Reports, Series C: Zoology & Botany 4(1): 1–80 [30, pl. 3, figs 33-34]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Circum-Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Continental rise, continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

18-1674 m

General References

Dell, R.K. 1990. Antarctic Mollusca: with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27: 1–311 [59-60, figs 98, 99]

Engl, W. 2012. Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim : Conchbooks 402 pp. [53-54, pl. 9 fig. 1]

Huber, M. 2010. Cyclocardia astartoides (Martens, 1878). De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds). The SCAR-MarBIN Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS). 2011-03-14. http://www.scarmarbin.be/rams.php?p=taxdetails&id=197132

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. [253]

History of changes

• Cardita calva Tate, R. 1887. The Lamellibranchs of the older Tertiary of Australia. Part II. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 9: 142-189 [189, pl. 20, fig. 14].

Generic Combinations

• Cyclocardia (Vimentum) calva (Tate, 1887). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [242]
• Cyclocardia calva (Tate, 1887).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Gatliff, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1912. Additions to and alterations in the Catalogue of Victorian Marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 25(1): 169-175 [174]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [242, fig. 725]

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [62, 67]

History of changes

• Venericardia delicata Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [351, pl. 16, fig. 18-9].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.12912, off Cape Jaffa, SA.

Generic Combinations

• Cyclocardia delicata (Verco, 1908).
• Cyclocardia (Vimentum) delicatum (Verco, 1908). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [242]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [198]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [240]

History of changes

• Venericardia dilecta excelsior Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [348, pl. 14, fig. 9] [as Venericardia dilecta var. excelsior Verco, 1908].
• Venericardia (Vimentum) leguleja Iredale, T. 1925. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 14(4): 243-270 [Date published 9 April] [255].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C.171154, off Ulladulla, NSW, Australia [35°21'28.8"S 150°28'30"E]; AM C.26099, 22 mls east of Narrabeen, north of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [33°42'S 151°43'1.2"E]; AM C.18124, 16 ml east of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia [34°25'1.2"S 151°15'0"E].
• Venericardia (Vimentum) semota Iredale, T. 1925. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 14(4): 243-270 [Date published 9 April] [255, pl. 42, fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.40720, off Montague Island, Narooma, NSW, Australia [36°15'0"S 150°13'1.2"E].

Generic Combinations

• Cyclocardia (Vimentum) excelsior (Verco, 1908). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [240]
• Cyclocardia excelsior (Verco, 1908).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 364 m

General References

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [17]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [240]

Oliver, P.G. 1982. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Parts 8 & 9. Carditacea and Crassatellacea. Cardiff : National Museum of Wales pp. 1-10 (pt. 8); pp. 1-6 (pt. 9). [4]

History of changes

History of changes

• Cardita Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp. [401].

  Type species:

   Chama calyculata Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation.
• Mytilicardita Anton, H.E. 1838. Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sich in der Sammlung von Hermann Eduard Anton befinden. Halle : Eduard Anton xvi + 110 pp. [imprint date 1839; see Cernohorsky (1978: 299) for publication dates] [10] [objective synonym; latinization of 'Les Mytilicardes' (vernacular) of Blainville, 1824, Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, 32: 326. Mytilicardia (Herrmannsen, 1847, Indicis generum malacozoorum primordia 2: 83) and Mytilocardia (Agassiz, 1847, Nomenclator Zoologicus. Index universalis: 244) are incorrect subsequent spellings].

  Type species:

   Chama calyculata Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

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), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Hain, S. 1985. Beitrage zur Morphologie, Systematik, Zoogeographie umd Phylogenie der familie Carditidae (Bivalvia). Diplomarbeit am Fachbereich Biligie der Philipps-Univ. Marburg (Lahn) 1985: 1-352 [34]

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. [652]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [17]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 25 text]

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] [N548]

History of changes

• Cardita aviculina Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [26].
• Cardita citrina Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [26].
• Cardita excavata Deshayes, G.P. 1854. Descriptions of twenty new species of the genus Cardita, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 20 for 1852: 100-103 [“received from the printer” 23 May, 1854] [100, pl. 17. figs 1-3].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• Mytilicardia tasmanica Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131–159 [Date published 21 Mar 1876] [161].

Generic Combinations

• Mytilicardia aviculina (Lamarck, 1819). —
  Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1904. Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria. Part VIII. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 17(1): 220-266 [234]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Mytilicardia calyculata (Linnaeus, 1758) [misidentificaton; combination of Chama calyculata Linnaeus, 1758]. —
  Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1904. Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria. Part VIII. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 17(1): 220-266 [234]
  Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [361]
• Chama calyculata Linnaeus, 1758 [original combination; see notes for Cardita calyculata (Linné, 1758)]. —
  Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10 Edn., 824 pp. [692]
• Cardita calyculata (Linné, 1758) [misidentification; Cardita calyculata (Linnaeus, 1758) is now used for bivalves from the Mediterranean and North Atlantic (Huber 2010), and is here excluded from the Australian fauna]. —
  May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [16]
  Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [320]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

In sand, intertidal, marine.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [194] (as As Cardita tasmanica)

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. [249, 653] (synonymy)

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [17] (as Cardita excavata)

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [54, 161] (as Cardita excavata)

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [320] (as Cardita calyculata (Linné, 1758))

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [16] (as Cardita calyculata (Linné, 1758))

Phillips, D.A.B., Handreck, C., Bock, P.E., Burn, R., Smith, B.J. & Staples, D.A. (eds) 1984. Coastal Invertebrates of Victoria: an atlas of selected species. Melbourne : Marine Research Group of Victoria & Museum of Victoria 168 pp. [87] (as Cardita calyculata (Linnaeus, 1758))

Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1904. Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria. Part VIII. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 17(1): 220-266 [234] (as Mytilicardia calyculata Linnaeus)

Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [347] (as Mytilicardia calyculata Linnaeus)

History of changes

• Cardita crassicosta Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [24].
• Cardita squamifera Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1825. A catalogue of the shells contained in the collection of the late Earl of Tankerville : arranged according to the Lamarckian conchological system: together with an appendix, containing descriptions of many new species. London : printed by E.J. Stirling for G.B. Sowerby vii, 92 pp. + appendix of xxiv pp. + coloured plates. [18].
• Cardita citrina Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [637].
• Cardita tridacnoides Menke, C.T. 1843. Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen in Libraria Aulica Hahniana. Hannoverae : Libraria Aulica Hahniana pp. 1-46. [Apr. 1843]. [39].
• Cardita crassicostata Reeve, L.A. 1843. Monograph of the genus Cardita. pls 1-9 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 1. [pl. 2, figs 7a-e].

Generic Combinations

• Mytilicardia crassicosta (Lamarck, 1819). —
  Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [346] (combination cited)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

East India, Java Sea, Philippines.

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), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, sand bottom marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [193-4]

Garrard, T.A. 1969. Amendments to Iredale and McMichael's "Reference List of the Marine Mollusca of New South Wales". Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(12): 3-17 [6]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [54]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [320]

Odhner, N.H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia. 1910–1913, pt XVII, Mollusca. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(16): 1–115 pls 1–3 [Date published 19 Sept. 1917] [24]

Oliver, P.G. 1982. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Parts 8 & 9. Carditacea and Crassatellacea. Cardiff : National Museum of Wales pp. 1-10 (pt. 8); pp. 1-6 (pt. 9). [2]

Satyamurti, S.T. 1956. Mollusca of Krusadai Is. II. Scaphopoda, Pelecypoda, and Cephalopoda. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History ns 1(no. 2, pt 7): 202 pp., 30 pls [73-4]

Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [346]

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. [305, pl. 34, fig. 16] (Thick-ribbed Cardita)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [58, pl. 59B] (Australian Cardita)

History of changes

• Cardita muricata Sowerby, G.B. (1st) in Sowerby, G.B. (1st) & Broderip, W.J. 1832. Characters of new species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1832(2): 25-202 [195].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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

In sand, intertidal, marine.

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. [653] (Huber does not believe that this name applies to an Australia species, and instead suggests using Cardita essingtonensis Deshayes, 1854, which he believes is a synonym of C. pica from the Philippines. The author synonymises the two names, whith C. pica taking priority. A revision of this Australian faunal component needs to take place before this conclusion can followed here)

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [54]

Common Name References

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [58, pl. 59F] (Prickly Cardita)

History of changes

• Cardita pica Reeve, L.A. 1843. Monograph of the genus Cardita. pls 1-9 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 1. [sp. 8].
• Cardita essingtonensis Deshayes, G.P. 1854. Descriptions of twenty new species of the genus Cardita, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 20 for 1852: 100-103 [“received from the printer” 23 May, 1854] [100].
• Cardita umbilicata Deshayes, G.P. 1854. Descriptions of twenty new species of the genus Cardita, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 20 for 1852: 100-103 [“received from the printer” 23 May, 1854] [100-101].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia to China (Huber, 2010)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 40 m

General References

Bernard, F.R., Cai, Y.Y. & Morton, B. 1993. Catalogue of the Living Marine Bivalve Molluscs of China. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press 121 pp. [64]

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. [250]

Oliver, P.G. 1982. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Parts 8 & 9. Carditacea and Crassatellacea. Cardiff : National Museum of Wales pp. 1-10 (pt. 8); pp. 1-6 (pt. 9). [1]

History of changes

• Cardita variegata Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp. [407, pl. 233, fig.6].
• Cardita calyculata Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [24-25] [non Linnaeus, 1758].
• Cardita subasper Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [25].

Generic Combinations

• Actinobolus variegata (Bruguiére, 1792). —
  Macandrew, R. 1870. Report on the testaceous Mollusca obtained during a dredging excursion in the Gulf of Suez in the months of February and March 1869. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 6: 429-450 [448]
• Mytilicardia variegata (Bruguiére, 1792). —
  Sturany, R.W.A. 1899. Lamellibranchiaten des Rothen Meeres. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 69: 255-295 [288]

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

Ecological Descriptors

Coral, intertidal, marine, rocks, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

Byssally attached

General References

Hain, S. 1985. Beitrage zur Morphologie, Systematik, Zoogeographie umd Phylogenie der familie Carditidae (Bivalvia). Diplomarbeit am Fachbereich Biligie der Philipps-Univ. Marburg (Lahn) 1985: 1-352 [42] (as Cardita calyculata)

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. [250]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [56]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [320] (as Cardita calyculata)

Oliver, P.G. 1982. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Parts 8 & 9. Carditacea and Crassatellacea. Cardiff : National Museum of Wales pp. 1-10 (pt. 8); pp. 1-6 (pt. 9). [1]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [115]

Oostingh, C.H. 1925. Report on a collection of recent shells from Obi and Halmahera, Molluccas. Mededeelingen van de Landbouwhoogeschool te Wageningen 29(1): 1–362 [270-3]

Tantanasiriwong, R. 1979. A checklist of marine bivalves from Phuket (area). Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 27: 1-15 [9]

History of changes

History of changes

• Beguina Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [160].

  Type species:

   Beguina nephritica Röding, 1798 by monotypy.
• Azarella Gray, J.E. 1854. Additions and corrections to the arrangement of the families of bivalve shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 14: 21-28 [22].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific

IMCRA

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

General References

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] [N548]

History of changes

• Chama semiorbiculata Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10 Edn., 824 pp. [691].
• Chama phrenetica Born, I. von 1778. Testacea musei Caesarei Vindobonensis quae jussu Mariae Theresia Augustae disposuit et descripsit. Vindobonae : J.P. Krauss 442 pp. [83].
• Beguina nephritica Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798].

Generic Combinations

• Cardita semiorbiculata (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Shopland, E.R. 1896. List of shells collected at Aden in 1892-95, classified in accordance with the Paetel Catalogue. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 10: 217-235 [233] (new combination)
• Beguina semiorbiculata (Linnaeus, 1758).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Byssally attached

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [184]

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. [250]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [56]

Oliver, P.G. 1982. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Parts 8 & 9. Carditacea and Crassatellacea. Cardiff : National Museum of Wales pp. 1-10 (pt. 8); pp. 1-6 (pt. 9). [2]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [115]

Tantanasiriwong, R. 1979. A checklist of marine bivalves from Phuket (area). Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 27: 1-15 [9]

Common Name References

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [58, pl. 59A] (Half Round Cardita)

History of changes

History of changes

• Megacardita Sacco, F. 1899. I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XXVII. Torino : Carlo Clausen 102 pp., 14 pls. [9].

  Type species:

   Venericardia jouanneti Basterot, 1825 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Europe (Miocene), Africa to Australia and New Zealand

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), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

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. [659]

Oliver, P.G. 1982. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Parts 8 & 9. Carditacea and Crassatellacea. Cardiff : National Museum of Wales pp. 1-10 (pt. 8); pp. 1-6 (pt. 9). [6]

Vaught, K.C. 1989. A Classification of the Living Mollusca. Melbourne, Florida : American Malacologists Inc. xii, 195 pp. [128]

History of changes

• Cardita depressa Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [23].
• Cardita rubicunda Menke, C.T. 1843. Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen in Libraria Aulica Hahniana. Hannoverae : Libraria Aulica Hahniana pp. 1-46. [Apr. 1843]. [38].

Generic Combinations

• Megacardita depressa (Lamarck, 1819). —
  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. [257, 659]
• Megacardita rubicunda (Menke, 1843).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

NW and SW Australia

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

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. [257]

History of changes

• Cardita nodulosa Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [25].
• Cardita rubida Clessin S. 1888. Die Familie der Carditaceen. In, Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. 17-60, pls 6-13 in Küster, H.C., Martini, F.W. & Chemnitz, J.H. (eds). Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 10. [47, pl. 11, figs 9-10].
• Cardita marmorea Reeve, L.A. 1843. Monograph of the genus Cardita. pls 1-9 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 1. [pl. 3, fig.12].

Generic Combinations

• Megacardita nodulosa (Lamarck, 1819).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

NW and NE Australia accorning to Huber (2010)

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Delessert, B. 1841. Recueil de coquilles décrites par Lamarck dans son Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres et non encore figurées. Paris : Fortin 2 pp. + 40 pls with unnumbered plate explanations + 3 pp. [pl. 11, fig. 8]

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. [257]

Lamy, M.E. 1916. Notes sur les espèces rangées par Lamarck dans les genres Venericardia et Cardita. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 22(1 & 2): 50-58, 115-121 [116]

Oliver, P.G. 1982. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Parts 8 & 9. Carditacea and Crassatellacea. Cardiff : National Museum of Wales pp. 1-10 (pt. 8); pp. 1-6 (pt. 9). [1]

History of changes

• Cardita preissii Menke, C.T. 1843. Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen in Libraria Aulica Hahniana. Hannoverae : Libraria Aulica Hahniana pp. 1-46. [Apr. 1843]. [38].

Generic Combinations

• Megacardita preissii (Menke, 1843).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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

In sand, intertidal, marine.

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. [257]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [54]

Common Name References

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [58, pl. 59E] (Preiss's Cardita)

History of changes

• Cardita turgida Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [22].
• Cardita sowerbyi Deshayes, G.P. 1854. Descriptions of twenty new species of the genus Cardita, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 20 for 1852: 100-103 [“received from the printer” 23 May, 1854] [103].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Swan River, WA.
• Cardita incrassata Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1825. A catalogue of the shells contained in the collection of the late Earl of Tankerville : arranged according to the Lamarckian conchological system: together with an appendix, containing descriptions of many new species. London : printed by E.J. Stirling for G.B. Sowerby vii, 92 pp. + appendix of xxiv pp. + coloured plates. [5].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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.

Generic Combinations

• Megacardita incrassata Sowerby, 1825. —
  Wells, F.E. & Threlfall, T.J. 1980. A survey of the softbottom molluscs of Cockburn Sound, Western Australia. The Veliger 23: 131-140 [135]
• Cardites sowerbyi (Deshayes, 1854).
• Megacardita turgida (Lamarck, 1819).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Megacardita cf. incrassata (Sowerby, 1825).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

W to NE Australia

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

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. [659] (synonymy)

Oliver, P.G. 1982. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Parts 8 & 9. Carditacea and Crassatellacea. Cardiff : National Museum of Wales pp. 1-10 (pt. 8); pp. 1-6 (pt. 9). [6]

History of changes

• Purpurocardia Maxwell, P.A. 1969. Middle tertiary Mollusca from North Otago and South Canterbury, New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Geology 6(13): 155-185 [174].

  Type species:

   Cardita purpurata Deshayes, 1852 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

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. [658]

History of changes

• Cardita amabilis Deshayes, G.P. 1854. Descriptions of twenty new species of the genus Cardita, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 20 for 1852: 100-103 [“received from the printer” 23 May, 1854] [102, pl. 17, figs 8, 9].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, "New Zealand" (error = Port Jackson, NSW, Australia).
• Cardita beddomei Smith, E.A. 1885. Report on the Lamellibranchiata collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 13(35): 1-341, 25 pls [211, pl. 15, fig. 5].
• Cardita gemmulifera Tate, R. 1892. Descriptions of some new species of marine Mollusca from Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 15(2): 125-132 [130].

Generic Combinations

• "Venericardia" amabilis (Deshayes, 1854).
• Purpurocardia amabilis (Deshayes, 1854).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• "Venericardia" amabilis (Deshayes, 1854). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 26, fig. 168]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [334]

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. [256]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [17]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [56]

History of changes

• Cardita bimaculata Deshayes, G.P. 1854. Descriptions of twenty new species of the genus Cardita, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 20 for 1852: 100-103 [“received from the printer” 23 May, 1854] [101, pl. 17, figs 4, 5].
• Cardita (Actinobolus) godeffroyi Dunker, G. 1871. Mollusca nova Musei Godeffroy Hamburgensis. Malakozoologische Blätter 18: 150–175 [172].
• Cardita atkinsoni Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. On some new species of Tasmanian marine shells. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 27-29 [27].
• Venericardia propelutea Cotton, B.C. 1930. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, southern Australia, No. 1. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(2): 223-240 [236, fig. 8].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [CD line 8175]

Generic Combinations

• Venericardia bimaculata (Deshayes, 1854).
• Purpurocardia bimaculata (Deshayes, 1854).
• Cyclocardia (Vimentum) godeffroyi (Dunker, 1871).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• "Venericardia" bimaculata (Deshayes, 1854). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 26, fig. 167]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, 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. [658] (synonymy)

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [56]

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [17]

History of changes

• Cardita cavatica Hedley, C. 1902. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales in February and March 1898. Mollusca. Part 1. Brachiopoda and Pelecypoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 285-324 [318, fig. 58].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.13256, 5-8 ml off Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia [34°30'21.6"S 151°0'54"E].

Generic Combinations

• Venericardia cavatica (Hedley, 1902).
• Purpurocardia cavatica (Hedley, 1902).
• Vimentum cavaticum (Hedley, 1902). —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [17]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• "Venericardia" cavatica Hedley, 1902. —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 27, fig. 171]
• Vimentum cavaticum auct. —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [17]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

General References

Gatliff, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1913. Additions to the Catalogue of Marine Shells of Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 26(1): 71-87 [85]

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. [659]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [17]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [58]

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [17]

History of changes

• Cardita purpurata Deshayes, G.P. 1854. Descriptions of twenty new species of the genus Cardita, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 20 for 1852: 100-103 [“received from the printer” 23 May, 1854] [100, pl. 17, figs 12-13].
• Venericardia australis Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp. [610] [junior homonym].
• Cardita quoyi Deshayes, G.P. 1854. Descriptions of twenty new species of the genus Cardita, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 20 for 1852: 100-103 [“received from the printer” 23 May, 1854] [103].

Generic Combinations

• Purpurocardia purpurata (Deshayes, 1854).
• Venericardia quoyi (Deshayes, 1854).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• "Venericardia" quoyi (Deshayes, 1854). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 27, fig. 170]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Also in New Zealand

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

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. [658]

Iredale, T. 1915. A commentary on Suter's "Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca". Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 47: 417-497 [Date published 12 July 1915] [487]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [58]

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [17]

Smith, E.A. 1915. British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910; Natural History Report, Mollusca Part 1 - Gastropoda Prosobranchia, Scaphopoda and Pelecypoda. Zoology (Jena) 2(4): 61-112, pls 1, 2 [90]

Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [349]

History of changes

• Venericardia Lamarck, J.B. 1801. Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou, tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaus; présentant leurs caractères essentials et leur distribution, d'après la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; précéde du Discours d'ouverture de l'an VIII de la République. Paris : Déterville viii 432 pp. [123] [Système des animaux sans vertèbres: 123].

  Type species:

   Venus imbricata Lamarck, 1801 (subsequent designation, Schmidt, 1818, Versuch über die beste Einrichtung...: 57) by subsequent designation.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

China, New Zealand.

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

History of changes

• Venericardia columnaria Hedley, C. & May, W.L. 1908. Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles off Cape Pillar, Tasmania. Records of the Australian Museum 7: 108-125, pls 22-25 [125, pl. 25, figs 37-40].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.29077, off Cape Pillar, Tasmania, Australia [43°13'1.2"S 148°4'58.8"E].

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [196-197]

Hain, S. 1985. Beitrage zur Morphologie, Systematik, Zoogeographie umd Phylogenie der familie Carditidae (Bivalvia). Diplomarbeit am Fachbereich Biligie der Philipps-Univ. Marburg (Lahn) 1985: 1-352 [31]

History of changes

• Bathycardita Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [205].

  Type species:

   Cardita raouli Angas, 1872 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

History of changes

• Cardita raouli Angas, G.F. 1872. Descriptions of ten new species of land and marine shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872: 610-613 [3 Nov. 1872] [613, pl. 42, fig. 12].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, off Cape Raoul, South Tasmania, Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Cardiocardita (Bathycardita) raouli (Angas, 1872).
• Bathycardita raouli (Angas, 1872). —
  Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [205]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 72 m

General References

Beu, A.G. 2006. Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 2. Biostratigraphically useful and new Pliocene to recent Bivalves. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 36(4): 151-338

Huber, M. 2010. Bathycardita raouli (Angas, 1872). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=504840 (Accessed on 2017-06-01)

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. (as Bathycardita raouli (G.F. Angas, 1872))

Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [17]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [56]

History of changes

• Vimentum Iredale, T. 1925. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 14(4): 243-270 [Date published 9 April] [255].

  Type species:

   Venericardia calva Tate by original designation.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Cardita dilectum Smith, E.A. 1885. Report on the Lamellibranchiata collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 13(35): 1-341, 25 pls [213, pl. 15, figs 4, 4a].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, Bass Strait; Bass Strait, Australia.
• Vimentum dilectum E.A. Smith, 1885.
• Cyclocardia dilecta E.A. Smith, 1885.

Generic Combinations

• Cyclocardia dilecta (E.A. Smith, 1885).
• Vimentum dilecta (E.A. Smith, 1885).
• Vimentum dilectum (E.A. Smith, 1885). —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [17]
• Cyclocardia (Vimentum) dilectum (E.A. Smith, 1885). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [240]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 237 m

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [197, fig. 196]

Huber, M. 2010. Vimentum dilectum (E. A. Smith, 1885). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=504945 (Accessed on 2017-05-25)

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.

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [17]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [240]

Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [347]

History of changes

• Cardita insignis Smith, E.A. 1885. Report on the Lamellibranchiata collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 13(35): 1-341, 25 pls [214, pl. 15, figs 3-3b].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Station 188, south of New Guinea.

Generic Combinations

• Vimentum insigne (Smith, 1885).
• Cyclocardia (Vimentum) insignis (Smith, 1885).
• Cyclocardia insignis (Smith, 1885).

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Arafura Sea between Papua New Guinea and QLD/NT. Challenger station 188

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, mud.

Notes

Appears as Vimentum insigne (E.A. Smith, 1885) in Huber (2010), and WoRMS.

General References

Huber, M. 2010. Vimentum insigne (E. A. Smith, 1885). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=504946 (Accessed on 2017-05-25)

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.

Oliver, P.G. 1982. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Parts 8 & 9. Carditacea and Crassatellacea. Cardiff : National Museum of Wales pp. 1-10 (pt. 8); pp. 1-6 (pt. 9). [4]

History of changes