MolluscaBase name details
Cardita patagonica G. B. Sowerby I, 1846 †
1438822 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1438822)
unaccepted (original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Sowerby, G. B. I. (1846). Appendix to part II. Descriptions of Tertiary fossil shells from South America. In: Darwin, C. Geological Observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. Smith, Elder & Co., London. pp 249-264, pls 2-5. , available online at http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F273&viewtype=text&pageseq=1
page(s): 251, pl. 2, fig. 17 [details]
page(s): 251, pl. 2, fig. 17 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cardita patagonica G. B. Sowerby I, 1846 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1438822 on 2025-09-11
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original description
Sowerby, G. B. I. (1846). Appendix to part II. Descriptions of Tertiary fossil shells from South America. In: Darwin, C. Geological Observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. Smith, Elder & Co., London. pp 249-264, pls 2-5. , available online at http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F273&viewtype=text&pageseq=1
page(s): 251, pl. 2, fig. 17 [details]
basis of record Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [details]
additional source Griffin, M.; Nielsen, S. N. (2008). A revision of the type specimens of Tertiary molluscs from Chile and Argentina described by d'Orbigny (1842), Sowerby (1846) and Hupé (1854). <em>Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.</em> 6(3): 251-316., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1477201907002374
page(s): 277, pl. 13, fig. 6-7 [details] Available for editors
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new combination reference Pérez, D. E.; Río, C. J. D. (2017). Systematics of the family Carditidae (Bivalvia: Archiheterodonta) in the Cenozoic of Argentina. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4338(1): 51., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4338.1.3
page(s): 64, fig. 4.1-10 [details]
page(s): 251, pl. 2, fig. 17 [details]
basis of record Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [details]
additional source Griffin, M.; Nielsen, S. N. (2008). A revision of the type specimens of Tertiary molluscs from Chile and Argentina described by d'Orbigny (1842), Sowerby (1846) and Hupé (1854). <em>Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.</em> 6(3): 251-316., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1477201907002374
page(s): 277, pl. 13, fig. 6-7 [details] Available for editors
[request]new combination reference Pérez, D. E.; Río, C. J. D. (2017). Systematics of the family Carditidae (Bivalvia: Archiheterodonta) in the Cenozoic of Argentina. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4338(1): 51., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4338.1.3
page(s): 64, fig. 4.1-10 [details]
Syntype NHMUK NHM-L27955-6 [details]
