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Meiocardia vulgaris

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Species of bivalve

Meiocardia vulgaris
G. B. Sowerby's illustration accompanying Reeve's description
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Venerida
Superfamily: Glossoidea
Family: Glossidae
Genus: Meiocardia
Species: M. vulgaris
Binomial name
Meiocardia vulgaris
(Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms
  • Isocardia vulgaris Reeve, 1845
  • Meiocardia delicata Kosuge & Kage, 1994

Meiocardia delicata is a species of marine bivalve in the family Glossidae.

Right and left valve of the same specimen:

  • Right valve Right valve
  • Left valve Left valve

Taxonomy

Lovell Augustus Reeve described this species in 1845, placing it in the genus Isocardia.

In 1994, S. Kosuge & T. Kase described a junior synonym M. delicata; this was synonymized in 1995 by Akihiko Matsukuma and Tadashige Habe.

Reeve gave this species the specific epithet vulgaris "common" to reflect "the abundant importation of this once rare and highly praised shell."

Distribution

The type locality of M. vulgaris and its junior synonym are China and Okinawa, Japan, respectively.

Its distribution includes: China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Queensland, Australia, the Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Northeast India, Oman, Zanzibar and Madagascar.

References

  1. ^ Reeve, Lovell Augustus (1845). "Plate 1". Monograph of the Genus Isocardia. Conchologia Iconica. Vol. 2. London: Reeve, Brothers. Species 2.
  2. Kosuge, S.; Kase, T. (1994). "Descriptions of two new species of the genus Meiocardia from southern Japan (Bivalvia Glossidae)". Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo. 3 (2): 28–30 (fide Matsukuma & Habe 1995). Not seen.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  3. ^ Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2024). "Meiocardia vulgaris (Reeve, 1845)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  4. ^ Matsukuma, Akihiko; Habe, Tadashige (1995). Bouchet, Philippe (ed.). "Systematic revision of living species of Meiocardia, Glossidae and Glossocardia, Trapezidae (Bivalvia)". Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 167 (Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 14): 77–91 .

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Taxon identifiers
Meiocardia vulgaris


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