MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
(of Purpura forbesii Dunker, 1853) Dunker, W. (1853). <i>Index molluscorum, quae in itinere ad Guineam inferiorem collegit Georgius Tams Med. Dr.</i>. Cassel, Th. Fischer, vi + 74 pp., 10 pl. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50134
page(s): 22, pl. 4 fig. 7, 8, 13 [details]
original description
(of Thais (Thaisella) langi Clench & R. D. Turner, 1948) Clench, W. J. & Turner, R. D. (1948). A new <i>Thais</i> from Angola and notes on <i>Thais haemastoma</i> Linné. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 1374: 1-4., available online at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/2332 [details]
taxonomy source
Claremont, M., Williams, S. T., Barraclough, T. G. & Reid, D. G. (2011). The geographic scale of speciation in a marine snail with high dispersal potential. <em>Journal of Biogeography.</em> 38, 1016-1032. [details]
basis of record
Claremont, M., Vermeij, G. J., Williams, S. T. & Reid, D. G. (2013). Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 66: 91–102. [Published online 28 September 2012; Code-compliant paper version published January 2013]. [details] Available for editors [request]