original description
Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): ii, pl. 31 fig. 4-5 [details]
additional source
Bowden J. & Heppell D. (1966). Revised list of British Mollusca. 1 Introduction Nuculacea-Ostreacea. <i>Journal of Conchology 26</i>: 99-124
page(s): 121 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Forbes, E. & Hanley, S. C. (1848-1853). A history of British Mollusca and their shells. Vol. 1: i-lxxx [1853], 1-486 [1848], pl. A-W, AA-ZZ, AAA-ZZZ [dates uncertain]; Vol. 2: 1-480 [1 dec. 1849], 481-557 [1850]; Vol. 3: 1-320 [1850], 321-616 [1851]; Vol. 4: 1-300 [1852], pl. 1-114F [dates uncertain]. London, van Voorst. <em>London, van Voorst.</em> 1:1-486., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16341
page(s): vol. 2 p. 263 [details]
From editor or global species database
Authority ex Leach ms. [details]
Taxonomy This name has been dismissed by Bowden & Heppell (1966: 121) as preoccupied by Plagiostoma sulcata Lamarck, 1819, but this is not a primary homonym. Nevertheless there is also some uncertainty regarding whether this name should apply to Limatula subauriculata (Montagu, 1808) as suggested by Forbes & Hanley (1849) or to Limatula gwyni (Sykes, 1903) as suggested by Bowden & Heppell (1966). It should be noted that the original description includes in the synonymy Pecten suborbiculatus [sic], a misspelling of Pecten subauriculatus but with the correct reference to the description p. 63, pl. 29 fig. 2. Therefore, Lima sulcata could be made an objective synonym of the latter by an appropriate lectotype or neotype designation [details]