original description
Dunker, W. (1860). Neue japanische Mollusken. <em>Malakozoologische Blätter.</em> 6: 221-240. [Published Jan. 1860, see pages 209 & 225]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16014319
page(s): 240 [details]
additional source
Dunker, W. (1861). <i>Mollusca Japonica descripta et tabulis tribus iconum</i>. E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, iv + 36 pp, 3 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10835994
page(s): 17-80, pl. 2, fig. 18 [details]
additional source
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): 40 [details]
From editor or global species database
Homonymy See Vermetus imbricatus Sandberger, 1859 (Oligocene). [details]