original description
Calcara P. (1840). Nuove specie di conchiglie. <i>Effemeridi scientifiche e letterarie per la Sicilia 30</i>: 37-37, available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=fPQBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA37
page(s): 35 [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]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Ficarazzi near Palermo, Sicily, Plio-Pleistocene fossil [also [details]