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. [351]

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] [N657]

History of changes

• Glossidae J. Gray, 1847 (1840) [Glossidae is in prevailing usage, and is conserved under Art. 40.2 of the ICZN with the priority of Isocardiidae J. Gray, 1840. Glossidae is thus maintained and retains its own author and date (the first date cited), but takes the priority of the replaced name; the date cited in parentheses, here alluding to Isocardiidae J. Gray, 1840; see Bieler et al. (2010: 9, 41, 129)].

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. [351-352]

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 [129]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [122, pl. 59]

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. [22]

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] [N657-N658]

History of changes

• Meiocardia Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1857. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 2(Parts XXIX-XXXII) pp. 413-540, pls 113-128. [461] (as subgenus of Bucardia).

  Type species:

   Chama moltkiana Gmelin, 1791 by subsequent designation, see Stoliczka, F. 1870. Cretaceous Fauna of Southern India. Palaeontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organic remains procured during the progress of the Geological Survey of India. Volume III, The Pelecypoda. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India suppl. 5(1-4): 1-222, pls 1-12 [Pt 3: 187].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

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. [352]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [122, pl. 59] (as subgenus of Glossus)

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] [N657] (as subgenus of Glossus)

History of changes

• Chama moltkiana Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3303] [Lamprell 1992 refers to Spengler 1783, Oliver 1992 Meiocardia moltikiana 'Spengler' [= Chama moltikiana Gmelin 1791].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.
• Isocardia lamarckii Reeve, L.A. 1845. Monograph of the genus Isocardia. pl. 1 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 2. [imprint date 1843] [pl. 1, sp. 5].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, China.
• Meiocardia nishimurai Kosuge, S. & Kase, T. 1994. Descriptions of two new species of the genus Meiocardia from southern Japan (Bivalvia Glossidae). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 3(2): 28-30, pls 11-12 [28, pl. 11, figs 1-5].

  Type data:

   Holotype IMT-94-1, Ogasawara Islands, Japan.

Generic Combinations

• Isocardia moltkiana (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Lamy, E. 1938. Mission Robert Ph. Dollfus en Egypte. VII. Mollusca Testacea. Mémoires Présentés à l'Institut d'Egypte 37: 1-89 [23] (New combination)
• Glossus (Meiocardia) moltkiana (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [122, pl. 59, fig. 451]
• Meiocardia moltkiana (Gmelin, 1791).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, mud bottom-marine, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

To 400 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. [67]

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [499, no. B1115]

Kosuge, S. & Kase, T. 1994. Descriptions of two new species of the genus Meiocardia from southern Japan (Bivalvia Glossidae). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 3(2): 28-30, pls 11-12 [29]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [122, pl. 59, fig. 451] (as Glossus (Meiocardia) moltkiana (Spengler, 1783))

Matsukuma, A. & Habe, T. 1995. Systematic revision of living species of Meiocardia, Glossidae and Glossocardia, Trapezidae (Bivalvia). In, Bouchet, P. (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes Musorstom. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 167: 75-106 [78]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [172]

History of changes

• Isocardia dussumieri Valenciennes in Cuvier, 1837 [Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, pi. XXXIII, figs. 2, 2 a].

  Secondary source:

   Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [122, pl. 59, fig. 449] (treated Isocardia dussumieri as a synonym of Glossus (Meiocardia) vulgaris).
• Isocardia vulgaris Reeve, L.A. 1845. Monograph of the genus Isocardia. pl. 1 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 2. [imprint date 1843] [pl. 1, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, China; China Seas.
• Meiocardia delicata Kosuge, S. & Kase, T. 1994. Descriptions of two new species of the genus Meiocardia from southern Japan (Bivalvia Glossidae). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 3(2): 28-30, pls 11-12 [29, pl. 11, figs 6-8; pl. 12, figs 1-3].

  Type data:

   Holotype IMT-94-2, Okinawa, Japan.

Generic Combinations

• Glossus (Meiocardia) vulgaris (Reeve, 1845). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [122, pl. 59, fig. 449]
• Meiocardia vulgaris (Reeve, 1845).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, mud-silt, sand, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 145 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. [67]

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]

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [499, no. B1117]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [122, pl. 59, fig. 449] (as Glossus (Meiocardia) vulgaris (Reeve, 1845))

Matsukuma, A. & Habe, T. 1995. Systematic revision of living species of Meiocardia, Glossidae and Glossocardia, Trapezidae (Bivalvia). In, Bouchet, P. (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes Musorstom. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 167: 75-106 [82,83]

History of changes