Kaliwatan sa ukab-ukab ang Basterotia quadrata^[1]. Una ning gihulagway ni Harold R. Hinds ni adtong 1843.^[2] Ang Basterotia quadrata sakop sa kahenera nga Basterotia, ug kabanay nga Basterotiidae.^[1][3]

Kini nga matang hayop na sabwag sa:

• Dagat Caribbean
• amihanang Kadagatang Atlantiko
• Venezuela
• Cuba
• Puerto Rico
• Colombia
• Hispaniola
• Lesser Antilles

Walay nalista nga matang nga sama niini.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed) (2019). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2019 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. TaxonID: 54447770. Retrieved 2019-11-11. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ↑ Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. (2009) Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, ,
3. ↑ MolluscaBase (2019). WoRMS Mollusca: MolluscaBase (version 2019-03-06). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.