1937  Wellerites Plummer & Scott: 376.
     1938  Walkerites.- Smith: 32.
     1952  Wellerites.- Ruzhentsev: 131.
     1957  Wellerites.- Treatise: L66.
     1958  Wellerites.- Miller & Furnish: 264.
     1960  Wellerites.- Ruzhentsev: 224.
     1962  Wellerites.- Osnovy: 388.
     1992  Wellerites.- Kyuma & Nishida: 17.
     1997  Wellerites.- Mapes et al.: 216.

Type species: Wellerites mohri Plummer & Scott, 1937, p.377 [OD]. [= Walkerites SMITH, 1938, p.31, type W. vulgaris, p.31; OD (subj.)].

A:   Conch form discoidal, with moderately narrow umbilicus; ventral side flattened. Early whorls may be triangularly coiled.
B:   Growth lamellae rather prominent, with deep ventral and lateral sinus.
C:   Transverse ribs on inner whorls, submedian sulcus on later stages.
G:   Median saddle of ventral lobe as high as entire ventral lobe. Second Adventitious lobe realtively large. Several umbilical lobes on flanks and umbilical shoulder. Sutural formula: [Germ.] (E1EmE1)A2A1LU ... ,  [Russ.] (V1V1)L1LU ... ID.

[For discussion see MILLER & FURNISH, 1958, p.264].

[Mapes et al., 1997, p.216: Mature conch evolute and sicoidal; umbilical ribbing present on juvenile forms. Suture having 20 to 22 lobes, adventitious lobe developing in first lateral saddle, four or five pairs of auxiliary umbilical lobes.]