Meiocardia vulgaris

Meiocardia vulgaris
G. B. Sowerby's illustration accompanying Reeve's description
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Venerida
Superfamily:	Glossoidea
Family:	Glossidae
Genus:	Meiocardia
Species:	M. vulgaris
Binomial name
Meiocardia vulgaris (Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms [1]
Isocardia vulgarisReeve, 1845 [2] Meiocardia delicataKosuge & Kage, 1994 [3]

Meiocardia delicata is a species of marine bivalve in the family Glossidae. ^[1]

Right and left valve of the same specimen:

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  Right valve
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  Left valve

Taxonomy

Lovell Augustus Reeve described this species in 1845, placing it in the genus Isocardia . ^[2]

In 1994, S. Kosuge & T. Kase described a junior synonym M. delicata; this was synonymized in 1995 by Akihiko Matsukuma and Tadashige Habe. ^[4]

Reeve gave this species the specific epithet vulgaris "common" to reflect "the abundant importation of this once rare and highly praised shell." ^[2]

Distribution

The type locality of M. vulgaris and its junior synonym are China and Okinawa, Japan, respectively. ^[4]

Its distribution includes: China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Queensland, Australia, the Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Northeast India, Oman, Zanzibar and Madagascar. ^[4]

References

1. 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.
2. Reeve, Lovell Augustus (1845). "Plate 1". Monograph of the Genus Isocardia. Conchologia Iconica. Vol. 2. London: Reeve, Brothers. Species 2.
3. 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.
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 [83–87].

Further reading

• Römer, Eduard (1869). "I. vulgaris Reeve". Die Familie der Herzmuscheln, Cardiacea. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet. Vol. 10. Nürnberg: Bauer und Raspe. pp. 9–10. Pl. 1, Figs. 8–9.
• Bülow, C. (1906). "Einige Seltenheiten aus meiner Sammlung". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malacozoologischen Gesellschaft. 38 (1): 37–38. Pl. 2, Fig. 5.
• Lamy, Edouard (1920). "Révision des Cypricardiacea et des Isocardiacea vivants du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Paris". Journal de Conchyliologie. 64 (4): 297–298.

External links

• Meiocaria vulgaris (Reeve 1845) (Photograph). NLBIF. 14 July 2014. Meiocaria vulgaris. Australia. Queensland. Keppel Bay. NMR 63867. Actual size 46 mm.