Chinese Register of Marine Species - Afrocardium exochum (Melvill, 1907)

Chinese
Register of
Marine Species
(ChaRMS)

ChaRMS taxon details

Afrocardium exochum (Melvill, 1907)

AphiaID

381384 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:381384)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Afrocardium Tomlin, 1931

Original name

Cardium (Acanthocardia) exochum Melvill, 1907

Synonymised names

Afrocardium infantule (Nomura & Zinbo, 1934) † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1907). The Mollusca of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, as evidenced mainly through the collections of Mr. F. W. Townsend, 1893-1906; with descriptions of new species. 2 Pelecypoda. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 20: 783-848, pls 53-56 [11 April]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31208540
page(s): 838, pl. 53, fig, 6.; note: given as Melvill, sp. n. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Afrocardium exochum (Melvill, 1907). Accessed through: Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2025) Chinese Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381384 on 2026-06-07

Regional species database citation

Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026). Chinese Register of Marine Species. Afrocardium exochum (Melvill, 1907). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org:443/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381384 on 2026-06-07

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

2010-03-24 10:05:37Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2010-03-29 08:44:56Z

changed

ter Poorten, Jan Johan

2014-06-04 11:21:44Z

changed

ter Poorten, Jan Johan

2022-08-23 08:00:11Z

changed

Schneider, Simon

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original description (of ) Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1907). The Mollusca of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, as evidenced mainly through the collections of Mr. F. W. Townsend, 1893-1906; with descriptions of new species. 2 Pelecypoda. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 20: 783-848, pls 53-56 [11 April]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31208540
page(s): 838, pl. 53, fig, 6.; note: given as Melvill, sp. n. [details]

basis of record Poorten, J.J. ter. (2024). A taxonomic iconography of living Cardiidae. Harxheim: ConchBooks, 600 pp.
page(s): 90; note: holotype figured (pl. 26 figs 1A-F) [details]

additional source Poorten, J.J. ter, 2009. The Cardiidae of the Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project 2004 and the Panglao 2005 Deep-Sea Cruise with descriptions of four new species (Bivalvia). Vita Malacologica 8: 9-96 [21 November 2009] . Available online at http://dare.uva.nl/record/340850, available online at http://dare.uva.nl/record/340850 [details]