1937  Palermites Tumanskaya: 377.
     1950  Palermites.-Ruzhentsev: 203.
     1957  Adrianites.-Treatise: P.L66.
     1960  Palermites.-Ruzhentsev: 229.
     1962  Palermites.-Osnovy: 393.
     1972  Palermites.-Davis: 54 [with mature modifications of species].
     1988  Palermites.-Vasicek & Kullmann: 102.
     2002  Palermites.-Leonova: S64.

Type species: Adrianites distefanoi Gemmellaro, 1887, p.48 [OD].

[Ruzhentsev, 1950, p.203: Conch not very wide, averagely involute, with large umbilicus.  
Sculpture represented by fine radial lines, which form a sinus on the lateral wall, and a
salient on the siphuncular side.  Siphuncular lobe subdivided in two thin, sharp prongs.  
5 outer lateral lobes; all narrow, tight at the top, sharp at the tip.  One umbilical lobe.  
A dorsal and 5 lateral lobes developed on inner side.]