Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Alternative combination: Cardium philipinense
Full reference: C. Hedley. 1899. The Mollusca of Funafuti. Part II - Pelecypoda and Brachiopoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 3(8):489-510
Belongs to Vasticardium according to J. J. Ter Poorten 2009
See also Hedley 1899
Sister taxa: Acrosterigma (Vasticardium) arenicola, Vasticardium angulatum, Vasticardium assimile, Vasticardium elongatum, Vasticardium enode, Vasticardium fidele, Vasticardium hyllebergi, Vasticardium kenyanum, Vasticardium neokenyanum, Vasticardium orbita, Vasticardium papuanum, Vasticardium pectiniforme, Vasticardium pulicarium, Vasticardium rubicundum, Vasticardium sewelli, Vasticardium somnueki, Vasticardium subrugosum, Vasticardium terpoorteni, Vasticardium vertebratum
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Vasticardium philipinense in the database
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