MolluscaBase name details
original description
(of Nassa socialis F. W. Hutton, 1885 †) Hutton, F.W. 1885. Meetings of Societies...Philosophical Institute of Canterbury. Christchurch, 2nd July, 1885. New species of Tertiary shells. The New Zealand Journal of Science 2 (11): 524. [details]
new combination reference
Cernohorsky W.O. (1981). Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Tertiary and Recent species of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 18:137-192. [details]