original description
Carpenter, P. P. (1857). <i>Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan Mollusca in the British Museum collected by Frederick Reigen</i>. London: British Museum. xvi + 552 pp. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/61252
page(s): 302-303 [details]
additional source
Bieler, R. & Petit, R. E. (2011). Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2948: 1-103., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02948p103.pdf
page(s): 40 [details]
status source
Keen M. (1961). A proposed reclassification of the gastropod family Vermetidae. <i>Bulletin of the British Museum, Natural History (Zoology)</i>, 7(3): 183-213, pls. 54-55. [February], available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27756384
page(s): 208 [details]
From editor or global species database
Status "Probably indeterminate; juvenile" according to Keen (1961: 208) [details]