Species Vasticardium sewelli (Prashad, 1932)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cardium (Trachycardium) sewelli Prashad, B. 1932. The Lamellibranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Systematic Part 2. Pelecypoda. Siboga-Expéditie Report 118(34): 1-353, pls 1-9, 1 map [268, pl. 6, figs 25, 26].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA ZMA Moll. 3.32.116, off Lirung, Salibabu Island, Indonesia.
• Cardium (Trachycardium) laddi Abrard, R. 1946. Fossils Néogénes et Quaternaires des Nouvelles-Hébrides (Missions E.Albert de la rüe, 1934-1936). Annales de Paléontologie, Paris 32: 1-112 [33, pl. 3, figs 1, 2].
• Laevicardium (Vasticardium) sewelli Fischer-Piette, E. 1977. Révision des Cardiidae (mollusques lamellibranches). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] A, Zoologie 101: 1-212 [34].

 

Generic Combinations

• Vasticardium sewelli (Prashad, 1932). —
  Hylleberg, J. 2004. Lexical approach to Cardiacea. Records of taxa. Illustrated and annotated records of living and fossil shells, with emphasis on the families Cardiidae and Lymnocardiidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Part 3: N-Z. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 30: 645-939 [766]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Fiji.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, in coral rubble, marine, sand, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

10-62 m

 

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. [296, CD: line 9877]

Hylleberg, J. 2004. Lexical approach to Cardiacea. Records of taxa. Illustrated and annotated records of living and fossil shells, with emphasis on the families Cardiidae and Lymnocardiidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Part 3: N-Z. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 30: 645-939 [766]

ter Poorten, J. 2014. Vasticardium sewelli (Prashad, 1932). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381375 (Accessed on 2015-02-06)

Ter Poorten, J.J. 1997. Acrosterigma sewelli (Prashad, 1932), a valid species from the central Indo-Pacific, compared with Acrosterigma flava (Linnaeus, 1758) (Bivalvia, Cardiidae). Basteria 61: 33-39 [33, figs 1-12]

Vidal, J. 1999. Taxonomic Review of the elongated cockles: genera Trachycardium, Vasticardium and Acrosterigma (Mollusca, Cardiidae). Zoosystema 21(2): 259-335, 20 figs [269]

 

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)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	CARDIIDAE	12-Nov-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		12-Apr-2011	MODIFIED