original description
Gray, J. E. (1857). <i>Guide to the systematic distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum</i>. Part I. [Gastropoda]. British Museum, London, xii + 230 pp. [9 May; Preface dated 10 Dec. 1856]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/117528
page(s): 157 [details]
source of synonymy
Galkin Yu.I. (1955). Gastropod molluscs trochids of Far Eastern and northern seas of the USSR (Family Trochidae) [Галкин Ю.И. 1955. Брюхоногие моллюски трохиды дальневосточных и северных морей СССР (Семейство Trochidae). Определители по фауне СССР, издаваемые Зоологическим институтом АН СССР, 57: 131 с.]. <em>Opredeliteli po faune SSSR.</em> 57: 1-131 (in Russian)., available online at http://ashipunov.me/shipunov/school/books/galkin1955_trochidy_sssr.djvu
page(s): 73 [details]
From editor or global species database
Authority The name is sometimes attributed in error to E.A. Smith, 1899 [Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 3(4): 205], who used Valvatella without author and date, but referred to a paper by Melvill, who used Valvatella Gray, 1857 [details]