original description
Nyst P. H. J. (1848). Tableau synoptique et synonymique des espèces vivantes et fossiles de la familie des Arcacées. pt. 1 Genre <i>Arca</i>. <i>Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique </i>: 22: 1-79, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2885636
page(s): 54; note: replacement name for Arca obliqua Philippi, 1844, non Portlock, 1843 [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Gofas, S.; Luque, Á. A.; Templado, J.; Salas, C. (2017). A national checklist of marine Mollusca in Spanish waters. <em>Scientia Marina.</em> 81(2) : 241-254, and supplementary online material., available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.04543.21a [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
Nomenclature ICZN Opinion 1887: placed on the official list of specific names [details]