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 > Genus Acanthocardia

Acanthocardia tuberculata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acanthocardia*	J. E. Gray, 1851	accepted genus name
*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

Species group names

*Acanthocardia (Rudicardium) tuberculata*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Cardium fasciatum*	Gmelin, 1791	synonym
*Cardium nodosum*	Montagu, 1803	synonym
*Cardium rusticum*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym
*Cardium tuberculare*	G. B. Sowerby I, 1831	synonym
*Cardium tuberculatum*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym
*Cardium tuberculatum var. mutica*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1892	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: midhja zemër me gunga sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

Dutch: geknobbelde hartschelp sources: Adema, J.P.H.M.; de Bruyne, R.H.; Perk, F.A. (1989). Preliminary name list of marine molluscs and shells, regularly washed ashore along the coasts of the Netherlands and Belgium [Voorlopige naamlijst van de mariene mollusken en de regelmatig langs de kust van Nederland en België aangespoelde schelpensoorten]. De Strandvlo 9(2): 49-59

English: Moroccan cockle; rough cockle; tuberculate cockle sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Knotige Herzmuschel; Warzige Herzmuschel sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Greek: Αγριομεθύστρα

Literature

basis of record	Poorten, J.J. ter. (2024). A taxonomic iconography of living Cardiidae. Harxheim: ConchBooks, 600 pp.
additional source	Zamouri-Langar, N.; Chouba, L.; Ajjabi Chebil, L.; Mrabet, R.; El Abed, A. (2011). Les coquillages bivalves des côtes tunisiennes. Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer: Salammbô. ISBN 978-9938-9512-0-2. 128 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Acanthocardia tuberculata (Linnaeus, 1758). 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:381057