MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
Ancey, C. F. (1887). Description of new genera or subgenera of Helicidæ. <em>The Conchologists' Exchange.</em> 1(9-10): 53-54 [30 April]; 1(11): 64 [May]; 1(12): 75-76 [28 June]; 2(2):22-23 [August]; 2(3): 38-39 [September]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28528881
page(s): 53 [details]
original description
(of Peltatus Godwin-Austen, 1908) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1908). Descriptions of nine terrestrial Mollusca from South Africa. Including anatomical descriptions of two new genera (<i>Afrodonta</i>, M. & P., and <i>Peltatus</i>, G.-A.) by Lt.-Col. H.H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (8) 1 (2): 129-136, pl. 7-8. London. [1 February]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24295838
page(s): 131 [details]
basis of record
Herbert D. G. (2016). New narrow-range endemic land snails from the sky islands of northern South Africa (Gastropoda: Streptaxidae and Urocyclidae). <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 236: 1-29., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.236 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Herbert D.G. (2017). A new genus and eight new species of tail-wagger snails from eastern South Africa, with a key to genera within <i>Sheldonia</i> s.l. (Gastropoda: Urocyclidae). <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 309: 1-50., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.309 [details]
subsequent type designation
Connolly, M. (1925). Notes on African non-marine Mollusca, with descriptions of many new species. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (9) 15 (88): 457-479, pl. 28. London. [1 April].
page(s): 467 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality