Bibliography for Dicathais orbita (Gmelin, 1791)

• Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs.
• Baker, J.T. & Sutherland, M.D. 1968. Pigments of marine animals. VIII Precursors of 6,6'-Dibromoindigotin (Tyrian Purple) from the mollusc Dicathais orbita Gmelin. Tetrahedron Letters 1: 43-46
• Beechey, D. 2000. Dicathais orbita (Gmelin, 1791). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Rapaninae/Pages/dicathais_orbita.htm
• 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. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91-102
• Cotton, B.C. 1956. Family Muricidae. Royal Society of South Australia, Malacological Section, Publication 8. 2 pls, 8 unnumbered
• Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae]
• Hedley, C. 1906. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part IX. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 30: 520-546 [Date published April 12 1906]
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• Ludbrook, N.H. 1978. Quaternary molluscs of the western part of the Eucla Basin. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Western Australia 125: 1–286
• Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp.
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• Menke, K.T. 1829. Verzeichniss der ansehnlischen Conchylien-Sammlung der Freiherrn von der Malsburg. Pyrmonti : Publisher not known pp. i–vi, 1–123.
• Phillips, B.F. 1969. The population ecology of the whelk Dicathais aegrota in Western Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 20: 225-265
• Powell, A.W.B. 1971. New Zealand molluscan systematics with descriptions of new species. Part 7. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 8: 209-228
• Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Purpura. pls 1-13 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3.
• Tan, K.S. 2003. Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of some southern Australian and New Zealand Muricidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda). Journal of Natural History 37: 911-1028
• Thornley, G. 1952. A new Thais found on a log at Port Stephens. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1951-1952: 43-45
• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
• Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp.
• Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp.

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