MolluscaBase name details
original description
Sowerby, G. B. III. (1892). <i>Marine shells of South Africa. A catalogue of all the known species with references to figures in various works, descriptions of new species, and figures of such as are new, little known, or hitherto unfigured</i>, London: G. B. Sowerby. 89 pp., 5 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1353472
page(s): 17, pl. 1, fig. 15. [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
Kilburn R.N. (1981). Revision of the genus <i>Ancilla</i> Lamarck, 1799 (Mollusca: Olividae: Ancillinae). <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 24(2): 349-463. [details]