Species Cyclocardia excelsior (Verco, 1908)

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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

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)
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	MOVED
		25-Feb-2011	MODIFIED