A catalogue of 1492 shelled mollusk species found in Taiwan, published in 1941 by the Japanese biologist T. Kuroda, virtually became a bible for scholars and collectors. It lists 331 species of bivalves.
一九四一年日本學者黑田德米發表台灣一千四百九十二種貝類目錄，當時在學界與收集貝類人士眼中，幾乎已成台灣貝類鑑定的「聖經」，其中記錄的雙殼貝有三百三十一種。