Georg August Pritzel, Carl Jessen: Die deutschen Volksnamen der Pflanzen. Neuer Beitrag zum deutschen Sprachschatze. Philipp Cohen, Hannover 1882, S. 119 f.(online).
Susanne S Renner, Hanno Schaefer, Alexander Kocyan: Phylogenetics of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): Cucumber (C. sativus) belongs in an Asian/Australian clade far from melon (C. melo) BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, Band 7, 58. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-58
M. Pitrat, M. Chauvet, C. Foury: Diversity, history and production of cultivated cucurbits. In: K. Abak, S. Büyükalaca: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Cucurbits. Acta Horticultae, Band 492, 1999, S. 21–29. ISSN0567-7572