Species Cardita variegata Bruguière, 1792

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
23-Oct-2014	BIVALVIA	19-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	ABRS
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014		28-Jul-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014		28-Jul-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	CRASSATELLOIDEA	15-Mar-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014		14-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED