MolluscaBase name details
original description
(of Murex scala Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]
basis of record
Bernard P.A. (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140 pp, 75 plates, illus. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Hemmen, J. (2007). <i>Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae</i>. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, <i>Recent Cancellariidae</i> by Jens Hemmen, 2007. <i>Conchologia Ingrata</i> 9: 1-8]. [details]