original description(ofLimatulidae Kasum-Zade, 2003)Kasum-Zade, A. A. (2003). Sostoyaniye izuchennosti mezozoyskikh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov Azerbaydzhana (Otryad Pectinoida: reviziya i sistematika) [Advances in research of Mesozoic bivalve mollusks in Azerbaijan (Order Pectinoida: revision and systematics)]. El-ALIiance, Baku, 112 pp. page(s): 62, 88 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of recordBieler, 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]
additional sourceStuardo, J. (1968). On the phylogeny, taxonomy and distribution of the Limidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). PhD thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 327 pp. [An unpublished work in the sense of the ICZN]. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceValentich-Scott, P.; Coan, E. V.; Zelaya, D. (2020). <i>Bivalve seashells of western South America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Punta Aguja, Peru to Isla Chiloé, Chile</i>. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. vii + 593 pp. page(s): 182 [details]
redescriptionCoan, 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
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Remark Family Limidae in separate superfamily 'Limacea' in Sheppard 1984 [details]