North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Laevicardium oblongum (Gmelin, 1791)

Laevicardium oblongum

AphiaID

139006 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139006)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Laevicardium Swainson, 1840

Original name

Cardium oblongum Gmelin, 1791

Synonymised names

Cardium oblongum Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Cardium obsoletum L. Spengler, 1799 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Cardium sulcatum Lamarck, 1819 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Subspecies Laevicardium oblongum castanea J. Vidal, 2005 accepted as Laevicardium castanea J. Vidal, 2005 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
Subspecies Laevicardium oblongum castaneum J. Vidal, 2005 accepted as Laevicardium castanea J. Vidal, 2005 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
Subspecies Laevicardium oblongum gibbum (Jeffreys, 1864) accepted as Laevicardium johnjeffreysi ter Poorten, 2024 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Cardium oblongum Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3254 [details]

Type data

Note ‘In mari mediterraneo’

Type locality ‘In mari mediterraneo’ [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Laevicardium oblongum (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2021) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139006 on 2026-05-29

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Laevicardium oblongum (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=139006 on 2026-05-29

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2014-11-30 11:34:08Z

changed

ter Poorten, Jan Johan

2020-02-27 17:48:24Z

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ter Poorten, Jan Johan

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original description (of Cardium obsoletum L. Spengler, 1799) Spengler, L. (1799). Over det toskallede Slægt, Hiertemuslingen, Cardium Linnéi. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet, Kiøbenhavn. 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): 28 [details]

original description (of Cardium sulcatum Lamarck, 1819) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441
page(s): 10-11 [details]

original description (of Cardium oblongum Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3254 [details]

context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]

basis of record Poorten, J.J. ter. (2024). A taxonomic iconography of living Cardiidae. Harxheim: ConchBooks, 600 pp.
page(s): 370 [details]

additional source Nolf, F. & Hubrecht, S. (2025). The Laevicardium species (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Cardiidae) in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea: an ongoing story of taxonomic confusion. Neptunea. 18 (1): 1-38. [details]

additional source Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]