Species Meiocardia moltkiana (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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

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)
23-Oct-2014	BIVALVIA	13-Jul-2016	MODIFIED	ABRS
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	GLOSSOIDEA	17-Sep-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		18-Apr-2011	MODIFIED