MolluscaBase name details
original description
(of Mactra fragilis Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3261; note: based on Chemnitz (1782), vol. 6, pl. 24 fig. 235 [details]
basis of record
Gray, J. E. (1837). A synoptical catalogue of the species of certain tribes or genera of shells contained in the collection of the British Museum and the author's cabinet. <em>Magazine of Natural History, N.S.</em> 1: 370-376., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2334415
page(s): 373 [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]
status source
Petit R.E. (2012) John Edward Gray (1800-1875): his malacological publications and molluscan taxa. <i>Zootaxa</i> 3214: 1-125.
page(s): 95 [details]