original description
Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3495 [details]
From editor or global species database
Homonymy Gmelin used the name Buccinum niveum twice, for two different species:
(1) On page 3471, he used Buccinum niveum for the species now called Hastula hectica (Linnaeus, 1758)
(2) On page 3495, he used the name Buccinum niveum a second time for another species now called Nassaria pusilla (Röding, 1798) [details]