WoRMS name details
Cardium (Cerastoderma) edule Linnaeus, 1758
1600680 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1600680)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
- Subspecies Cardium (Cerastoderma) edule rectidens Coen, 1915 accepted as Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789)
- Variety Cardium (Cerastoderma) edule var. mercatoria Coen, 1915 accepted as Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Cardium edule Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
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MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cardium (Cerastoderma) edule Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1600680 on 2026-05-19
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(of Cardium edule Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 681 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Lindholm, W. A. (1915). Über Mollusken aus dem Delta-Gebiete des Amu-Darja. <em>Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoy Akademii Nauk (Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Ácadémie Impériale des Sciences de Petrograd).</em> 19: 340-348., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33778347
page(s): 347-348 [details]
page(s): 681 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Lindholm, W. A. (1915). Über Mollusken aus dem Delta-Gebiete des Amu-Darja. <em>Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoy Akademii Nauk (Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Ácadémie Impériale des Sciences de Petrograd).</em> 19: 340-348., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33778347
page(s): 347-348 [details]
