original description
Martens, E. von. (1879). [Descriptions of nonmarine Mollusca]. In: Pfeiffer, K. (ed.) Novitates Conchologicae. Series Prima. Mollusca extramarina. Beschreibung und Abbildung neuer oder kritischer Land- und Süßwassermollusken, vol. 5, 175–197.
page(s): 191, pl. 156, figs 3-5. [details]
source of synonymy
Cowie, R. H. (2015). The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: <i>Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea</i>): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3940(1): 1-92., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1 [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality No locality was given. According to Kobelt (1881), Zanzibar is the type locality [details]