original description
Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571
page(s): vol. 2 p. 338 [details]
original description (unavailable nomenclaturally)
Soldani A. 1789-1798. Testaceographiae ac zoophytographiae parvae et microscopiae. Tomus primus (1789), pp. i-xxxii, 1-289; pl. pl. 1-179; Tomus secundus (1798), pp. i-vii, 1-148; 1-26, and appendix pl. I-XXIII [reproduced from <i>Saggio orittografico</i>, 1780]. Senis [Sienna], Francisco Rossi., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/toc/?PPN=PPN572634544
page(s): vol. 1, pl. 1C [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy This generic name has been repeatedly used for species currently placed in Volvulella Newton, 1891. The figure provided by Montfort may resemble Volvulella acuminata but Montfort refers to Soldani (1789, vol. 1 pl. 1C) which clearly represents a juvenile Bulla collected at Porto Ferraio (Elba Is., Italy), and the drawing is obviously copied from there. Soldani's figure on pl. 1G is Volvulella acuminata but is not referred by Montfort. [details]