MolluscaBase - Afrocardium exochum (Melvill, 1907)

WoRMS taxon details

Afrocardium exochum (Melvill, 1907)

AphiaID

381384 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:381384)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Afrocardium Tomlin, 1931

Original name

Cardium (Acanthocardia) exochum Melvill, 1907

Synonymised names

Afrocardium infantule (Nomura & Zinbo, 1934) † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Cardium (Acanthocardia) exochum Melvill, 1907 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Cardium (Trachycardium) infantule Nomura & Zinbo, 1934 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Cardium infantule Nomura & Zinbo, 1934 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Cardium radula Jaeckel & Thiele, 1931 · unaccepted > junior homonym (Invalid: non Cardium radula...)

Invalid: non Cardium radula Broderip & G.B. Sowerby, 1829 and Cardium radula Deshayes, 1835; Laevicardium thielei is a replacement name

Laevicardium (Trachycardium) thielei Fischer-Piette, 1977 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Laevicardium thielei Fischer-Piette, 1977 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Cardium (Acanthocardia) exochum Melvill, 1907) Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1907). The Mollusca of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, as evidenced mainly through the collections of Mr. F. W. Townsend, 1893-1906; with descriptions of new species. 2 Pelecypoda. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 20: 783-848, pls 53-56 [11 April]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31208540
page(s): 838, pl. 53, fig, 6.; note: given as Melvill, sp. n. [details]

Type data

Note Persian Gulf, Thairi [Probably Iran, Tahiri (=...

From editor or global species database

Type locality Persian Gulf, Thairi [Probably Iran, Tahiri (= Siraf)] [details]

Type material NHMUK 1907.5.3.80, holotype [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Afrocardium exochum (Melvill, 1907). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381384 on 2025-04-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-01-26 09:04:42Z

created

ter Poorten, Jan Johan

2009-01-30 12:26:24Z

changed

ter Poorten, Jan Johan

2010-03-24 10:05:37Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2010-03-29 08:44:56Z

changed

ter Poorten, Jan Johan

2014-06-04 11:21:44Z

changed

ter Poorten, Jan Johan

2022-08-23 08:00:11Z

changed

Schneider, Simon

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Cardium radula Jaeckel & Thiele, 1931) Thiele, J. & Jaeckel, S. (1931). Muscheln der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer “Valdivia”, 1898–1899. 21: 159-268, pls 6-10., available online at https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/307383.pdf, https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/FJWWXEPS2QU47O6MAG2XGHGMNBBGGJUL
page(s): 227, pl. 9 fig. 99 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Cardium (Acanthocardia) exochum Melvill, 1907) Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1907). The Mollusca of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, as evidenced mainly through the collections of Mr. F. W. Townsend, 1893-1906; with descriptions of new species. 2 Pelecypoda. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 20: 783-848, pls 53-56 [11 April]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31208540
page(s): 838, pl. 53, fig, 6.; note: given as Melvill, sp. n. [details]

original description (of Laevicardium (Trachycardium) thielei Fischer-Piette, 1977) Fischer-Piette, E. (1977). Révision des Cardiidae (Mollusques Lamellibranches). Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris (A). 101: 1-212., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57853315
page(s): 55 [details]

original description (of Cardium (Trachycardium) infantule Nomura & Zinbo, 1934 †) Nomura, S.; Zinbô, N. (1934). Marine Mollusca from the “Ryûkyû Limestone” of Kikai-zima, Ryûkyû Group. The Science Reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University, Sendai, Japan, second series (Geology). 16(2): 109-164, pl. 5., available online at https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=10698&file_id=18&file_no=1
page(s): 156, pl. 5 figs 17a-b [details] Available for editors

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basis of record Poorten, J.J. ter. (2024). A taxonomic iconography of living Cardiidae. Harxheim: ConchBooks, 600 pp.
page(s): 90; note: holotype figured (pl. 26 figs 1A-F) [details]

Other

additional source Poorten, J.J. ter, 2009. The Cardiidae of the Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project 2004 and the Panglao 2005 Deep-Sea Cruise with descriptions of four new species (Bivalvia). Vita Malacologica 8: 9-96 [21 November 2009] . Available online at http://dare.uva.nl/record/340850, available online at http://dare.uva.nl/record/340850 [details]