MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
Benson, W. H. (1864). Characters of <i>Coilostele</i>, an undescribed genus of Auriculacea (?), and of species of <i>Helix</i>, <i>Pupa</i>, and <i>Ancylus</i>, from India, West Africa, and Ceylon. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (3) 13(74): 136-140., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26482420
page(s): 136. [details]
original description
(of Francesia Paladilhe, 1872) Paladilhe, A. (1872). Du nouveau genre asiatique. Francesia. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova.</em> 3: 5-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10267767
page(s): 10 [details]
original description
(of Coelostele W. T. Blanford, 1875) Blanford, W. T. (1875). Note on the molluscan genera <i>Coelostele</i>, Benson and <i>Francesia</i>, Paladilhe, and on some species of land-shells from Aden. <em>The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 44 (1): 41-46. Calcutta [24 July]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37191938 [details]
basis of record
Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017. [details]
source of synonymy
Naggs, F. (1997). William Benson and the early study of land snails in British India and Ceylon. <em>Archives of Natural History.</em> 24(1): 37-88.
page(s): 65-72, figs. 13-21 [details]