« Six species of the upper tertiary level are still extinct; among them, we notice two Lucina globosa: one, mentionned by M. Sismonda in his Synopsis, as unpublished from the museum of Turin, where it was named by Bonelli ; the second is Defrance’s Globosa, Venus globosa of Brocchi. We said previously to which species this name of Globosa had to be applied [to the extant species from the Red Sea] ; the two fossil species we are talking about will need to receive other names: to the first one we give Lucina sismondae ; to the second Lucina Brochii. » – G. P. Deshayes: Traité élémentaire de conchyliologie… vol. I part. ii, Paris 1850.