WoRMS name details
original description
(of Perlamater vulgaris Schumacher, 1817) Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329 page(s): 108; pl. 20 fig. 3; note: based in part on Chemnitz (1785), vol. 8, p. 126, pl. 80 fig. 717 [details]
basis of record
Spry, J. F. (1964). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Part 2: Pelecypoda (Bivalves). <em>Tanganyika Notes and Records.</em> 63: 123-164, 8 pls. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
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
Hynd, J. (1955). A Revision of the Australian Pearl-shells, Genus <i>Pinctada</i> (Lamellibranchia). <em>Marine and Freshwater Research.</em> 6(1): 98., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/mf9550098 page(s): 114 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy "Schumacher's figure is too poor and his description too brief to be of any real value and, in the absence of a type specimen and a type locality, [the present author] regards the species as unidentifiable [details]
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