original description
Garrard, T. A. (1972). A revision of Australian Recent and Tertiary Turritellidae (Gastropoda, Mollusca). <em>J. Malac. Soc. Aust.</em> 2(3): 267-338.
page(s): 283-284 [details]
Holotype AM C.72590, geounit Australian part of the Coral Sea [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Pre-occupied Eichwald, 1830. No need for replacement seen as synonymy (infraspecific variation) with Colpospira moretonensis Garrard, 1972 (synonymy fide Warén MS - unpublished). [details]