MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
(of Mactra capensis G. B. Sowerby III, 1892) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1892). <i>Marine shells of South Africa. A catalogue of all the known species with references to figures in various works, descriptions of new species, and figures of such as are new, little known, or hitherto unfigured</i>, London: G. B. Sowerby. 89 pp., 5 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1353472
page(s): 55, pl. 3, fig. 68. [details]
original description
(of Lutraria albanyana W. H. Turton, 1932) Turton, W. H. (1932). The marine shells of Port Alfred S. Africa. Humphrey Milford, London. pp. i-xvi, 1-331, pls 1-70. [published 22 Dec. 1932].
page(s): 256, pl. 69, sp. 1813. [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]
additional source
Signorelli, J.H. (2021). The family Mactridae Lamarck, 1809 (Bivalvia: Cardiida) in South African waters. <em>Malacologia.</em> 63(2): 195–223.
page(s): 204, figs 61-68. [details]