original description
(of Lucina semperiana Issel, 1869) Issel, A. (1869). <i>Malacologia del Mar Rosso. Ricerche zoologiche e paleontologiche</i>. Biblioteca Malacologica, Pisa. xi + 387 pp., pls 1-5. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43995
page(s): 82. [details]
basis of record
Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. <i>Faune des colonies françaises</i>, 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy genus Phacoides now restricted to single large species from western Atlantic - Phacoides pectinatus [details]