[5][6] The type locality is Craigie Burn, Somerset East, South Africa.

[1] Prestonella nuptialis was described by two British malacologists James Cosmo Melvill (1845-1929) and John Henry Ponsonby-Fane (1848-1916) in 1894.

[1] The type description reads in Latin and the English language as follows:[1] Buliminus nuptialis, sp.

B. testa angustissime umbilicata, delicatula, tenui, succineo-brunnea; anfractibus quatuor, tribus supra parvis, ultimo perlato, rapide accrescente, effuso, undique longitudinaliter oblique rude liratis; apertura oblonga; peristomate simplici, tenui, apud umbilicum fere clausum, reflexo.

absence of any granular sculpture.The width of the shell of the type species is 8.5 mm.