original description
Brown, T. (1818). Account of the Irish testacea. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History. <em>Society.</em> 2(2): 501-536., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=d0lgCKhd2fwC
page(s): 514 [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 Tynemouth, Northumberland, England; Portmarnock and Dublin Bay, Ireland [details]