original description
Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1863). Descriptions of five new genera of Mollusca. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (3) 11: 18-20., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22221472#page/31/mode/1up
page(s): 18 [details]
status source
Turner, R. D. 1969. Superfamily Pholadacea. In L. R. Cox et al., eds., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part N, Bivalvia, Mollusca 6, vols. 1 and 2:xxxvii + 952 p. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas. p. 702-742.
page(s): N709 [details]
From editor or global species database
Remark Initially described as the internal shell of an aplysid. Later found to be "the internal spathulate appendage of Pholas costata" (H. Adams, 1866: 755) [details]