original description
Ancey, C. F. (1892). Études sur la faune malacologique des Iles Sandwich. <em>Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France.</em> 5: 708-722., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10109623
page(s): 718-719 [details]
status source
Cowie, R. H., Evenhuis, N. L. & Christensen, C. C. (1995). <i>Catalog of the Native Land and Freshwater Molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands</i>. vi + 248 pp. [3 June]. Leiden (Backhuys Publishers).
page(s): 140; note: As a probable junior synonym of Geostilbia aperta (Swainson, 1840). [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Named for the American malacologist, David Dwight Baldwin (1831-1912). [details]