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