MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 143 [details]
original description
(of Ensatella Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. <em>London, Longman.</em> viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450 [details]
basis of record
Cosel R. von, 2009. The razor shells of the eastern Atlantic, part 2. Pharidae II: the genus <i>Ensis</i> Schumacher, 1817 (Bivalvia, Solenoidea). <i>Basteria</i>, 73: 9-56 , available online at http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/download?type=document&docid=597354 [details]
additional source
Holme, N. A. (1951). The identification of British species of the genus <i>Ensis</i> Schumacher (Lamellibranchiata). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 29(3): 639-647., available online at http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/1432/1/The_identification_of_British_species_of_the_genus_Ensis_Schumacher.pdf [details]
redescription
Coan, 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]
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
From other sources
Classification in family Solenidae [details]