MolluscaBase name details
original description
Sowerby, G. B. III. (1906). On new species of <i>Siphonaria, Terebra</i>, and <i>Mangilia</i>, and a remarkable form of <i>Cypraea cruenta</i>, from South Africa. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 7: 37-39., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15797473 [details]
additional source
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. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 135 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality