WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Cardium magnum Born, 1778) Born, I. Von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]; (Kraus)., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890 page(s): 34 [details]
original description
(of Cardium ventricosum Bruguière, 1789) Bruguière, J. G. (1789-1792). <i>Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers</i>, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, <i>Zootaxa</i>, 166: 37; <i>Zootaxa</i>, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006 page(s): 228 [details]
original description
(of Cardium maculatum Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 page(s): 3255 [details]
original description
(of Cardium obliquum Spengler, 1799) Spengler, L. (1799). Over det toskallede Slægt, Hiertemuslingen, <i>Cardium</i> Linnéi. <em>Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet, Kiøbenhavn.</em> 5(1): 1-60, pl. 1., available online at https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PPN=PPN608227374_0005&DMDID=DMDLOG_0004 page(s): 23-24, pl. 1 fig. 3a-b [details]
original description
(of Cardium robustum [Lightfoot], 1786) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464 page(s): 58 [details]
original description
(of Dinocardium robustum vanhyningi Clench & L. C. Smith, 1944) Clench, W. J. & Smith, L. C. (1944). The family Cardiidae in the Western Atlantic. <em>Johnsonia.</em> 1(13): 1-32., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41114039 page(s): 11-12 [details]
basis of record
Abbott, R. T. (1974). <i>American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America</i>. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Poorten, J.J. ter, 2005. Outline of a systematic index - Recent Cardiidae (Lamarck, 1809). VISAYA net. (Updated 2009 for WoRMS), available online at https://www.conchology.be/?t=702&vnet=1316 [details]
additional source
Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution Virginia to North Florida, Texas and Mexico [details]
Length L 100-120 mm (adult) [details]
Type locality ‘Florida’ (Lightfoot, 1786: 58). Type figure: Born (1780: pl. 3 fig. 5). ‘The figure in Lister (1687: pl. 328 fig. 165) was recorded from Campeche, Mexico. This latter locality can be accepted as the type locality’ (Clench & Smith, 1944: 10) [details]
Type material Unknown [details]
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Atlantic giant cockle |
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