Localidade Tipo: off Ilha Santana, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Descrição original: Quinn, J. F., Jr. (1992). New species of Calliostoma Swainson, 1840 (Gastropoda: Trochidae), and notes on some poorly known species from the western Atlantic Ocean. The Nautilus. 106(3): 77-114, figs. 1-122., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8271323