Bibliography for Murex (Murex) Linnaeus, 1758

• 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.
• Brazier, J. 1893. Catalogue of the marine shells of Australia and Tasmania. Part III. Gastropoda, Murex. Australian Museum Sydney, Catalogue 15:. 45-74 pp.
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• Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp.
• Dodge, H. 1957. A historical review of the molluscs of Linnaeus. Part 5. The genus Murex of the Class Gastropoda. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 113(2): 73-224
• Dohrn, H. 1862. Descriptions of new shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1862: 202-203
• Houart, R. 2010. Description of a new species from Indonesia in the Murex scolopax group (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) and comments about Murex (Murex) ternispina Lamarck, 1822 from East Java. Novapex 11(1): 29-35
• Jousseaume, F. 1880. Division méthodique de la Famille des Purpuridés. Le Naturaliste 42: 335-336
• Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp.
• Lightfoot, J. 1786. A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland: deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co., etc. London viii, 194 pp. + 44 pp.
• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10 Edn., 824 pp.
• Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J-P 2011. Fossil and recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-648, pls 182.
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• Perry, G. 1810. Arcana; or The Museum of Natural History: containing the most recent discovered objects. London : George Smeeton pl. I–XLVIII.
• Perry, G. 1811. Conchology, or the natural history of shells containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings, executed from the natural specimens and including the latest discoveries. London : W. Miller 4 pp., 62 pls.
• Ponder, W.F. & Vokes, E.H. 1988. A revision of the Indo-West Pacific fossil and recent species of Murex s.s. and Haustellum (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae). Records of the Australian Museum 8: 1-160 [Date published 29 April]
• Reeve, L.A. 1845. Monograph of the genus Murex. pls 1-34 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3.
• Smith, E.A. 1884. Mollusca. pp. 34–116, 487–508, 657–659, pls 4–7. In, Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the H.M.S. 'Alert ' 1881-2. London : British Museum Trustees, printed by Taylor & Francis. [Part I. Collections of Melanesia, pp. 34–116; Part II. Collections from the Western Indian Ocean, pp. 487–508; explanation of plates pp. 657–659]
• Smith, E.A. 1904. Natural history notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer "Investigator", commander T.H. Heming, R.N. - Series III., No. 1. On Mollusca from the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 13(58): 453-473 [continued from series 7 vol. 4(22): 237-251]
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• Watson, R.B. 1886. Report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 15(42): 756 pp., 50 pls
• 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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