MolluscaBase name details
original description
(of Ostrea fragilis Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]
basis of record
Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. <i>Faune des colonies françaises</i>, 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Lamarck [J.B.P.A. de]. (1806-1807). Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. <em>Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 8: pp. 77-79, pl. 35-37 (=pl. VIII-X); pp. 156-166; 347-355, pl. 59-62 (=pl. XI-XIV) [1806]; pp. 461-469 [January 1807]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29407826
page(s): 463; note: presented as new name based on Chemnitz, 1784, p. 349, pl. 68 fig. 650, but the first nomenclatural act making the name available was that of Glelin, 1791 (as Ostrea fragilis) [details]
From other sources
Remark subgenus Mantellum (Dautzenberg, 1923) [details]