Species Vasticardium pectiniforme (Born, 1778)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cardium pectiniforme Born, I. von 1778. Testacea musei Caesarei Vindobonensis quae jussu Mariae Theresia Augustae disposuit et descripsit. Vindobonae : J.P. Krauss 442 pp. [49, pl. 3, fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMW G23-875a, locality unknown.
• Cardium regulare Bruguière, J.G. 1789. Histoire Naturelle des Vers. Cardium. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par de matieres. Historie Naturelle des Vers et Mollusques 1: 203-235 [227].
• Cardium rugosum Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [10].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, GMNH 1985/55, Indian Ocean?.
• Trachycardium peregrinum Jousseaume, F. 1888. Description des Mollusques Recueillis par M. Le Dr. Faurot dans la Mer Rouge et le Golfe D'Aden. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 1(42): 166-223 [212].
• Vasticardium nigropunctatum Habe, T. & Kosuge, S. 1966. New genera and species of the tropical and subtropical Pacific molluscs. Venus 24(4): 312-341 [340, pl. 29, fig. 16].

  Type data:

   Holotype Amami Islands, south of Kyushu, Japan.

 

Generic Combinations

• Vasticardium pectiniforme (Born, 1778). —
  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 [688]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

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

Ecological Descriptors

Coarse sand, coral reef, in coral rubble, intertidal, marine, seagrass.

Extra Ecological Information

20 (100) m, shallowly burrowed in coarse sand and coral debris, also among seagrass

 

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. [295, CD: line 9864]

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 [688-689]

ter Poorten, J. 2014. Vasticardium pectiniforme (Born, 1780). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381353 (Accessed on 2015-02-05)

Vidal, J. 1997. Taxonomic Review of the Indo-Pacific Vasticardium flavum species group (Bivalvia, Cardiidae). Zoosystema 19(2-3): 233-253 [244, figs 2c, f, g, 3a, 4b-f]

Vidal, J. 1999. Reflections on the distribution of polytypic species of the genus Vasticardium (Mollusca, Cardiidae) from the Indo-Pacific. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 2 19: 353-362 [354]

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)
23-Oct-2014	BIVALVIA	19-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	ABRS
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)
		15-Aug-2013	MODIFIED