original description
Stimpson, W. (1860). Checklist of the Shells of North America. East Coast: Arctic Seas to Georgia. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9065630
page(s): p. 3, n. 189. [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 Nom. nov. pro Mactra ovalis Gould, 1840, non J. Sowerby, 1817 [details]