WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Murex wahlbergi Krauss, 1848) Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704 page(s): 111, pl. 6, fig. 13. [details]
original description
(of Vitularia candida H. Adams & A. Adams, 1864) Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1864). Descriptions of new species of shells, chiefly from the Cumingian collection. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1863: 428-435., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30681784 page(s): 430. [details]
original description
(of Nucella wahlbergi lindaniae Lorenz, 1991) Lorenz, F. (1991). A new subspecies of Nucella wahlbergi (Krauss, 1848) and notes on some South African Muricidae. <em>Schriften zur Malazoologie.</em> 4: 55–61. [details]
basis of record
Houart, R. (2024). <i>Living Muricidae of the world. Ocenebrinae</i>. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 238 pp. page(s): 54, textfigs 6D, 19, pls 40N-V, 41A-D [details]
additional source
Steyn, D. G.; Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289. page(s): 97. [details]
identification resource
Houart, R.; Kilburn, R. N. & Marais, A. P. (2010). Muricidae. pp. 176-270, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), <i>Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa</i>. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp. [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution This species also occurs in Namibia (Luderitz area), but this record is not published. There is material in the NMSA collection. Herbert pers obs [details]
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