MolluscaBase name details
original description
(of Unio castus I. Lea, 1860) Lea, I. (1860). Descriptions of seven new species of Unionidae from the United States. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 12: 306-307 [7 August 1860]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1801247
page(s): 306 [details]
basis of record
Campbell, D. C. & Lydeard, C. (2012). Molecular systematics of <i>Fusconaia</i> (Bivalvia: Unionidae: Ambleminae). <em>American Malacological Bulletin.</em> 30 (1): 1-17. [details]
additional source
InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org). [details]