Genus Natella Eberzin, 1949 † accepted as Pachydacna Eberzin, 1955 †(unaccepted > junior homonym, junior homonym of Natella H. Watson, 1934 [Gastropoda] and Natella Palmer, 1937; Pachydacna is a replacement name)
Lamarck, J.-B. (M. de). (1809). Philosophie zoologique, ou exposition des considérations relatives à l'histoire naturelle des animaux. Paris, Dentu & the author. Tome premier, I-XXV, 1-428. Tome second, 1-475., available online athttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5675762f/f6.item.texteImage[details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cardiidae Lamarck, 1809. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=229 on 2025-07-16
original descriptionLamarck, J.-B. (M. de). (1809). Philosophie zoologique, ou exposition des considérations relatives à l'histoire naturelle des animaux. Paris, Dentu & the author. Tome premier, I-XXV, 1-428. Tome second, 1-475., available online athttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5675762f/f6.item.texteImage[details]
basis of recordPoorten, J.J. ter. (2024). A taxonomic iconography of living Cardiidae. Harxheim: ConchBooks, 600 pp.[details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy sourceHerrera, N. D.; Poorten, J. J. ter; Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M.; Strong, E. E.; Jablonski, D.; Steppan, S. J. (2015). Molecular phylogenetics and historical biogeography amid shifting continents in the cockles and giant clams (Bivalvia: Cardiidae). <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 93: 94-106., available online athttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2015.07.013[details] Available for editors [request]
redescriptionCoan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.[details]
additional sourceBieler, R.; Carter, J. G.; Coan, E. V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 52(2): 1-184.[details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality