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Bivalvia | Cardiida | Cardioidea | Cardiidae

genus Cerastoderma Poli, 1795: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)

Synonymy

Cerastes Poli, 1795

Poli, 1795. Testacea Utriusque Siciliae 2: ??.

Cerastoderma Poli, 1795

Poli, 1795. Testacea Utriusque Siciliae 2: 252, 258.
Type species: Cardium edule Linnaeus, 1758 (sub. desig. by Martens, 1870: __) = Cerastoderma edule

Edulicardium Monterosato, 1923

Monterosato, 1923. unknown publication: ??.

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Cerastoderma, since 1900.

Cardium — Zhadin (1965), Slugina (2006)
Cerastoderma — Keen (1969), Huber (2010), Bieler et al. (2014), Vinarski & Kantor (2016), Combosch et al. (2017), Wesselingh et al. (2019), Kondakov et al. (2020), Wu et al. (2023), Huang et al. (2025)

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