Family CARDITIDAE Férussac, 1822

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• 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]

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