MolluscaBase name details
original description
(of Janthina prolongata Blainville, 1822) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1822). Janthine, <i>Janthina</i>. pp. 148-155, <i>in</i>: Dictonnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 24. Levrault, Strasbourg & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://books.google.fr/books?id=d5M5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA148
page(s): 155 [details]
basis of record
Maravigna C. 1838. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle de la Sicile. Paris, Baillière, 86 pp., 6 pl., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=pDvWkCqbm-EC
page(s): 63 [details]
source of synonymy
Laursen, D. 1953. The genus Ianthina: A monograph. Dana Report 38: 1-40, pl. 1. [details]