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G.  Bevelander and Nakahara, H., ?An electron microscope study of the formation of the nacreous layer in the shell of certain bivalve molluscs?, Calcified Tissue Research, vol. 3, pp. 84-92, 1969.

D. W.  Boyd and Newell, N. D., ?Silicified Leptodesma (Bivalvia; Pteriomorphia) from the Texas Permian?, American Museum Novitates, vol. 3347, pp. 1-10, 2001.

C. Broglio Loriga and Posenato, R., ?Adaptive strategies of Lower Jurassic and Eocene multivincular bivalves?, in Autecology of selected fossil organisms: achievements and problems, A.  Cherchi, Ed. Modena: Mucchi, 1996, pp. 45-61.

J. Gaylord Carter and , ?Shell microstructure of a Middle Devonian (Hamilton Group) bivalve fauna from central New York?, Journal of Paleontology, vol. 52, pp. 859-880, 1978.

K.  Chinzei, ?Morphological and structural adaptations to soft substrates in the Early Jurassic monomyarians Lithiotis and Cochlearites?, Lethaia, vol. 15, pp. 179-197, 1982.

J. S.  Crampton, ?Comparative taxonomy of the bivalve families Isognomonidae, Inoceramidae, and Retroceramidae?, Palaeontology, vol. 31, pp. 965-996, 1988.

I.  Kobayashi, ?Internal microstructure of the shell of bivalve molluscs?, American Zoologist, vol. 9, pp. 663-672, 1969.

H.  Nakahara and Bevelander, G., ?The formation and growth of the prismatic layer of Pinctada radiata?, Calcified Tissue Research, vol. 7, pp. 31-45, 1971.

S.  Suzuki and Uozumi, S., ?Organic components of prismatic layers in molluscan shells?, Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 4. Geology and Mineralogy, vol. 20, pp. 7-20, 1981.

J. D.  Taylor, Kennedy, W. James, and Hall, A., ?The shell structure and mineralogy of the Bivalvia. Introduction. Nuculacea-Trigonacea?, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Zoology, vol. Supplement, pp. 1-125, 1969.

T.  Ubukata, ?Architectural constraints on the morphogenesis of prismatic sculpture in Bivalvia?, Palaeontology, vol. 37, pp. 241-261, 1994.

K.  Wada, ?The crystalline structure on the nacre of pearl oyster shell?, Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries, vol. 24, pp. 422-427, 1958.

K.  Wada, ?On the relationship between shell growth and crystal arrangement of the nacre in some Pelecypoda?, Venus, vol. 21, pp. 204-211, 1961.

K.  Wada, ?An electron microscope study of the formation of the periostracum of Pinctada martensii?, Journal of Electron Microscopy, vol. 17, p. 275, 1968.

K.  Wada, ?Cultured pearl and its structure?, in Proceedings of the Symposium on Mollusca held at Cochin from January 12 to 16, 1968, vol. 3, 3 vol., Mandapam Camp: Marine Biological Association of India, 1968, pp. 972-974.

K. T.  Wada, ?Genetics of pearl oyster in relation to aquaculture?, Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly, vol. 28, pp. 276-282, 1994.