original description
Grateloup [J.P.S. de]. (1840). Note sur un Mémoire relatif à des mollusques exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. <em>Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux.</em> 11 (55): 161–170. [dated 30 March 1840]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35029444
page(s): 163 [details]
From editor or global species database
Additional information This is the first mention of the taxon that would become Calocochlea melanocheila (Valennciences in Grateloup, 1840). It was published with a question mark behind the species name. Not figured. See Helix melanocheilos [details]