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Melvill, J. C. 1895. Descriptions of new species of Pleurotoma, Mitra and Latirus. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1(5): 221-223; pl. 14. [223; pl. 14, fig. 5]	Cited Figured Original Description Type Designation	request
Trew, A. 1987. James Cosmo Melvill's New Molluscan Names. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. 1-84pp [71]	Cited
Turner, H. 1989. Uncommon and New Mitriform Gastropods from the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape. CH-8903 Birmensdorf. 1-35pp; pls.1-8 [pl. 8, fig. 15]	Figured	request
Turner, H. 2001. Katalog der familie Costellariidae Macdonald 1860 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Muricoidea). Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 1-100pp [68]
Herrmann, M., Stossier, G. & Salisbury, R. 2014. A new subgenus including three new species of the genus Vexillum (Gastropoda: Costellariidae) from the central Indo-Pacific with remarks on Vexillum (Pusia) semicostatum (Anton, 1838). Contributions to Natural History . 24: 1-55; pls 1-19. [17; pl. 1, fig.3; pl. 12, fig. 40]	Cited Figured Current Name	request

Melvill, 1895: “In the type specimen, now in my collection, the epidermis is still adherent to the interstices of the last whorl, between the ribs.”