MolluscaBase name details
original description
Sowerby, G. B. III. (1895). New species of shells from Kurachi and the Mekran coast, collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 1: 278–280, pl. 18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15167591 [details]
basis of record
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]
additional source
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]