Lea, I.; Lea, H. C. (1851). Description of a new genus of the family Melaniana, and of many new species of the genus
Melania, chiefly collected by Hugh Cuming, Esq., during his zoological voyage in the East , and now first described.
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 18: 179-197 [28 February 1851, teste Duncan (1937:81)].