MolluscaBase name details
original description
Sowerby, G. B. I; Sowerby, G. B. II. (1832-1841). <i>The conchological illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells</i>. London, privately published. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109863 [details]
basis of record
Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. <i>Faune des colonies françaises</i>, 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
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 http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/z02189p218f.pdf [details]
status source
Poorten, J.J. ter, 2011 [December 21]. Designation of <i>Cardium multispinosum</i> G.B. Sowerby II, 1839, as a <i>nomen protectum</i> and its senior synonym <i>Cardium leve</i> Anton, 1838, as a <i>nomen oblitum</i> (Bivalvia, Cardiidae). <i>Basteria</i> 75(4-6): 104-106. [details]