MolluscaBase name details
original description
(of Obeliscus adamsii P. P. Carpenter, 1864) Carpenter, P. P. (1864). Supplementary report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the West Coast of North America. <em>Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.</em> (1863) 33: 517-686., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29370651
page(s): 546-547; note: based on Pyramidella sp. indet. of C.B. Adams (1852: nº 293, p. 424 [200 in reprint]), which is hardly described as "a snow-white shell, having only eight whorls" [details]
basis of record
Keen, A. M. (1971). Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru. ed. 2. Stanford University Press. xv, 1064 pp., 22 pls.
page(s): 768 [details]
redescription
Dall, W. H. & Bartsch, P. (1909). A monograph of West American pyramidellid mollusks. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 68 (30): 1-258., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32384
page(s): 21-22, pl. 1 fig. 6-6a [details]