MolluscaBase - Cardium spinosa (Swainson, 1840)

MolluscaBase name details

Cardium spinosa (Swainson, 1840)

AphiaID

381450 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:381450)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted name

Cardium cardissa Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Corculum cardissa (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Parent

Cardium Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Cardissa spinosa Swainson, 1840

Environment

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

Original description

(of Cardissa spinosa Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 373 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cardium spinosa (Swainson, 1840). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381450 on 2025-09-10

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

2017-06-06 15:00:28Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2022-11-12 19:13:53Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2024-08-15 13:12:29Z

changed

ter Poorten, Jan Johan

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Sources (1)

original description (of Cardissa spinosa Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 373 [details]