original description
Da Costa, E. M. (1778). <i>Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology</i>; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783
page(s): 89, pl. V, fig. 16; note: as Turbo cydindraceous in text; cylindraceus in index [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Middlesex and Surrey. Mr. Petiver on the fandy banks of the Thames at Kingfron, in the latter county. Dr. Lifter in plenty at Estrope in Lincolnshire. Mr. Morton, in great plenty', in a ground nigh Morsley wood in Northamptonshire ; and I have received it from old walls at Leeswoood in Flintshire. [details]