MolluscaBase name details
original description
(of Mya complanata [Lightfoot], 1786) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 100, no. 2190 [details]
basis of record
Graf, D. & Cummings, K. (2007). Review of the systematics and global diversity of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionoida). <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> 73(4): 291-314. [details]
additional source
InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org). [details]
additional source
Matteson, M. R. (1948). The taxonomic and distributional history of the fresh-water mussel <i>Elliptio complanatus</i> (Dillwyn, 1817). <em>The Nautilus.</em> 61(4): 127-132; 62(1): 13-17, text-figs. 1-2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8284833 [details]
additional source
Johnson, R. I. (1948). The authorship of <i>Elliptio complanatus</i>. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 62(1): 36., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8519575 [details]