original description
Poli, J. X. (1795). <i>Testacea utriusque Siciliae eorumque historia et anatome tabulis aeneis illustrata</i>. Parma: Regio Typographeio. Vol. 2: i-xlix, [1-2], 75-264, pls 19-39. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44019644
page(s): 161, pl. 28 fig. 11 [details]
basis of record
Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Dijkstra (2016) cited Art. 23.9 of the Code to conserve Ostrea flexuosa Poli, 1795, over Ostrea depressa Gmelin, 1791, but he failed to document the evidence of 25 references as required in the Code. [details]