Two new species of Thais (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore, with notes on T. tissoti (Petit, 1852) and T. blanfordi (Melvill, 1893) from Bombay, India

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-107

  Tan, K S ^a   Sigurdsson, J B ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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