basis of record
Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Bieler, R.; Carter, J. G.; Coan, E. V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 52(2): 1-184. [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Turner (in Moore, ed., 1969: 721) suggested this emendation of the family name in order to avoid the homonymy with the family name Xylophagidae Fallén, 1810 (based on Xylophagus Meigen, 1803 [Diptera]. However, under ICZN Art. 55.3.1, a change in spelling could be done only by the Commission, which had to be petitioned to amend the spelling of the bivalve name. Coan, Carlton & Evenhuis petitioned the Commission in 2017, and this led to Opinion 2429. [details]