MolluscaBase name details
original description
(of Murex superbus G. B. Sowerby III, 1889) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1889). Descriptions of fourteen new species of shells from China, Japan, and the Andaman Islands, chiefly collected by Deputy Surgeon-Gen. R. Hungerford. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 56: 565-570, pl. 28. [April 1889]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28691272
page(s): 565, pl. 28 figs 10-11 [details]
basis of record
Drivas, J. & Jay, M. (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection les beautés de la nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. ISBN 2-603-00654-1. pp. 1-160. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Ekawa, K. (1990). Identity of Chicoreus elliscrossi and C. superbus. <em>VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology).</em> 49(1):38−44. [details] Available for editors [request]