World Register of Deep-Sea species - Cyclocardia Conrad, 1867

Deep-Sea taxon details

Cyclocardia Conrad, 1867

AphiaID

156830 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156830)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Cardita borealis Conrad, 1832 accepted as Cyclocardia borealis (Conrad, 1832) (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Scalaricarditinae D. E. Pérez, 2019

Original name

Cyclocardia Conrad, 1867

Direct children (5)

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Species Cyclocardia antarctica (E. A. Smith, 1907)
Species Cyclocardia borealis (Conrad, 1832)
Species Cyclocardia compressa (Reeve, 1843)
Species Cyclocardia velutina (E. A. Smith, 1881)
Species Cyclocardia astartoides (E. von Martens, 1878) accepted as Cyclocardia antarctica (E. A. Smith, 1907)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Conrad, T. A. (1867). Description of a new genus of Astartidae. American Journal of Conchology. 3(2): 191., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6658793
page(s): 191 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cyclocardia Conrad, 1867. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156830 on 2026-08-30

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Cyclocardia Conrad, 1867. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156830 on 2026-08-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-20 07:57:29Z

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Cuvelier, Daphne

2011-10-22 12:41:03Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2020-01-06 02:14:58Z

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Rosenberg, Gary

2020-01-09 08:10:12Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2021-10-23 08:30:05Z

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Vinarski, Maxim

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original description Conrad, T. A. (1867). Description of a new genus of Astartidae. American Journal of Conchology. 3(2): 191., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6658793
page(s): 191 [details]

context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. Revista peruana de biología. 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]

basis of record Valentich-Scott P. (1998). Class Bivalvia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 1 – The Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Bivalvia and Cephalopoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 8: 97-173. [details]

additional source Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]

additional source Volobueva V.I. (1986). Bivalve mollusks of the Oligocene of the eastern part of the Koryak Upland [= Двустворчатые моллюски олигоцена восточной части Корякского нагорья]. Paleogene-Neogene bivalves of the Far East and Eastern Paratethys: A collection of scientific papers [= Палеоген-неогеновые двустворчатые моллюски Дальнего Востока и Восточного Паратетиса: Сборник научных трудов]. pp. 65-74.
page(s): 70 [details]