original description
Blanford, W. T. (1881). Contributions to Indian malacology, No. XII. Descriptions of new land and freshwater shells from Southern and Western India, Burmah, the Andaman Islands, &c. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 49 [1880] (4): 181-222, pl. 2-3. Calcutta [7 March]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43119260
page(s): 219–220, pl. 2, fig. 22 [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality India, Kerala: “In Travancor and more specifically: in streams traversing the plains between Trevandrum and the foot of the Aghastyamali hill” [details]