Species Vasticardium vertebratum (Jonas, 1844)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cardium vertebratum Jonas, J.H. 1844. Vorlaufige diagnosen neuer conchylien, welvhe ausfuhrlicher beschrieben und abgebildet nachstens erscheinen werden. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 1844: 33-37 [33].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Western Australia.
• Cardium reeveanum Dunker, G. 1852. Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Malakozoologische Blätter 9(4): 49-62 [54].

  Type data:

   Holotype Australia.
• Regozara olivifer Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [275, pl. 20, fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60606, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia [33°51'S, 151°13'58.8"E].
• Cardium subrugosum Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1834. Cardium. pts 48-51 in Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) (ed). The Conchological Illustrations or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London : G.B. Sowerby (2nd). [126].
• Cardium philippense Shirley, J. 1912. Additions to the marine Mollusca of Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 23: 93-102 [nomen nudum; Deshayes ms].

  Secondary source:

   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 [695].

 

Generic Combinations

• Acrosterigma reeveanum (Dunker, 1852). —
  Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1986. Seashells of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 207 pp. [166] (New combination)
• Vasticardium vertebratum (Jonas, 1844). —
  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. [296]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Central Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, mud bottom, sand bottom, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

8 - 30 m

 

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. [296, CD: line 9883]

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 [829]

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 [21]

ter Poorten, J. 2014. Vasticardium vertebratum (Jonas, 1844). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381378 (Accessed on 2015-02-06)

Vidal, J. 1997. Taxonomic Review of the Indo-Pacific Vasticardium flavum species group (Bivalvia, Cardiidae). Zoosystema 19(2-3): 233-253 [248, figs 5c, e, f]

Vidal, J. 1999. Taxonomic Review of the elongated cockles: genera Trachycardium, Vasticardium and Acrosterigma (Mollusca, Cardiidae). Zoosystema 21(2): 259-335, 20 figs [269]

Wilson, B.R. & Stevenson, S.E. 1977. Cardiidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of Western Australia. Western Australian Museum Special Publication 9: 1-114 [83]

 

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