Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Cardiida > Superfamily Cardioidea > Family Cardiidae > Subfamily Lymnocardiinae > Tribe Acanthocardiini

Acanthocardia J. E. Gray, 1851

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acanthocardia (Rudicardium)*	Coen, 1915	synonym
*Cardium (Acanthocardia)*	J. E. Gray, 1851	synonym
*Cardium (Acanthocardium)*	Römer, 1868	synonym
*Cardium (Eucardium)*	P. Fischer, 1887	synonym
*Eucardium*	P. Fischer, 1887	synonym
*Eucardium (Rudicardium)*	Coen, 1915	synonym

Children

Acanthocardia aculeata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acanthocardia deshayesii (Payraudeau, 1826)
Acanthocardia echinata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acanthocardia paucicostata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834)
Acanthocardia spinosa ([Lightfoot], 1786)
Acanthocardia tuberculata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Literature

basis of record	Poorten, J.J. ter. (2024). A taxonomic iconography of living Cardiidae. Harxheim: ConchBooks, 600 pp.
basis of record	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.
additional source	Nevesskaja, L.A.; Goncharova, I.A.; Paramonova, N.P.; Popov, S.V.; Babak, E.V.; Bagdasarjan, K.G.; Voronina, A.A. (1993). Opredelitel' miotsenovykh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov yugo-zapadnoy Yevrazii. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 247: 1-412
additional source	La Perna, R.; D'Abramo, M. (2013). Systematics of the Acanthocardia paucicostata group in the Mediterranean Plio-Pleistocene, with description of a new species (Bivalvia, Cardiidae). Journal of Conchology. 41(4): 481-492.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Acanthocardia J. E. Gray, 1851. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137732