Species Acrosterigma attenuatum (Sowerby, 1841)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cardium attenuatum Sowerby, G.B. 1841. An extensive series of new species of the genus Cardium exhibited by Mr Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 8: 105-115 [109] [according to Lamprell belongs to genus Laevicardium].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1971.26, Sri Lanka.

 

Generic Combinations

• Laevicardium attenuatum (Sowerby, 1841). —
  Altena, C.O. van & Beets, C. 1944. Eine Neogene Mollusken fauna vom Tji Gugur (Priangan), W. Java. Verhandelingen Geologisch-Mijnbouwkundig Genootschap Nederland en Koloniën Geologisch 14: 37-70, 1 pl. [55] (New combination)
• Vasticardium attenuatum (Sowerby, 1841). —
  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 2: A-M. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 30: 355-644 [391]
• Acrosterigma attenuatum (Sowerby, 1841). —
  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 2: A-M. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 30: 355-644 [390-391]

 

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

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral reef, marine, mud-silt, sand, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

10-53 m. Fine sand and mud, among and on coral.

 

General References

Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [187, pl. 57, fig. 24] (as Laevicardium attenuatum)

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. [304, CD: line 10124] (as "Laevicardium" attenuatum (G.B. Sowerby II, 1841))

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 2: A-M. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 30: 355-644 [390-391]

Hylleberg. J. Cardiidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the collection of Statens naturhistoriske Museum, previously the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen (ZMUC). Annotated and revised. Steenstrupia 31(2): 103–324 [127]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [70, fig. 221] (as Laevicardium attenuatum)

Reeve, L.A. 1845. Monograph of the genus Cardium. pls 13-22 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 2. [imprint date 1843] [pl. 15, fig. 72] (as Cardium attenuatum)

Tantanasiriwong, R. 1979. A checklist of marine bivalves from Phuket (area). Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 27: 1-15 [9]

ter Poorten, J. 2014. Acrosterigma attenuatum (G. B. Sowerby II, 1841). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=345700 (Accessed on 2015-02-02)

Vidal, J. 1999. Taxonomic Review of the elongated cockles: genera Trachycardium, Vasticardium and Acrosterigma (Mollusca, Cardiidae). Zoosystema 21(2): 259-335, 20 figs [327, fig. 19g-i, table 35]

Wilson, B.R. & Stevenson, S.E. 1977. Cardiidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of Western Australia. Western Australian Museum Special Publication 9: 1-114 [57, pl. 3, figs 8-12, text fig. 6] (as Laevicardium attenuatum)

 

Common Name References

Reeve, L.A. 1845. Monograph of the genus Cardium. pls 13-22 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 2. [imprint date 1843] [pl. 15, fig. 72] (The Attenuated Cockle)

 

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	16-Nov-2015	MODIFIED	ABRS
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	CARDIIDAE	21-Apr-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		21-Nov-2013	MODIFIED