original description
Mörch, O. A. L. (1860). Beiträge zur Molluskenfauna Central-Amerika's. <em>Malakozoologische Blätter.</em> 7: 66–106. [Stated dates: Jul. 1860 on pp. 65 and 81, Aug. 1860 on p. 97]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15919625
page(s): 78 [details]
basis of record
Bieler, R. & Petit, R. E. (2011). Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2948: 1-103., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02948p103.pdf
page(s): 15 [details]
additional source
Adanson M. (1757). <i>Histoire Naturelle du Sénégal, Coquillages</i>. Bauche, Paris, viii + 275 pp., 19 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12014153
page(s): 164 [details]
additional source
Fischer-Piette, E. (1942). Les mollusques d'Adanson. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 85(2-4): 101–366, pls. 1–16. [Title page includes: "avec la collaboration de P.-H. Fischer, L. Germain et P. Pallary".]., available online at https://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/EXPLOITATION/infodoc/ged/viewportalpublished.ashx?eid=IFD_FICJOINT_MNHN_CONCH_1942_T085_N002_1
page(s): 264 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Status The type species, Serpula goreensis Gmelin, 1791 (= "Le Dofan" of Adanson 1757: 164, pl. 11, fig. 3) seems no longer to be discoverable (Fischer-Piette 1942: 264). As the type figure does not permit specific determination, the generic name is at present unusable. [details]