MolluscaBase name details
original description
Sowerby, G. B. I. (1830). <i>Species conchyliorum, or, Concise original descriptions and observations accompanied by figures of all the species of recent shells, with their varieties</i>. Vol. I, part I. G. B. Sowerby, London. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40032554
page(s): 7, figs. 54, 55. [details]
basis of record
Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2189: 1–218., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/z02189p218f.pdf [details]
source of synonymy
Cate, C. N. (1973). A systematic revision of the recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. <em>Veliger.</em> 15 (supplement): 1-117., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42495434 [details]
source of synonymy
Lorenz, F.; Fehse, D. (2009). <i>The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae</i>. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 651 pp., 203 pls., 375 + numerous unnumb. text figs. [details]