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Reference	Citation	Reference available
Reeve, L. A. 1857 & 1858. Descriptions of seven new shells from the collection of the Hon. Sir David Barclay, of Port Louis, Mauritius. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 25(339/340), 1857: 207-210; pls 37-38. [209; pl. 38, fig. 2a & b]	Cited Figured Original Description	request
Dance, S. P. 1969. Rare Shells. London: Faber & Faber. 128pp; 50 colour pls [74]	Cited	request
Harasewych, J. 1973. More on Murex barclayi. Hawaiian Shell News. 21(3); 159: 4; figs 1-3. [4; fig. 2]	Cited Figured	request
Abbott, R. T. & Dance, S. P. 1982. Compendium of seashells. E. P. Dutton, Inc. New York. i-x, 1-411pp; text figs [133; text fig.]	Figured
D'Attilio, A. & Hertz, C. 1987. Comparison of Naquetia annandalei (Preston, 1910) and Naquetia barclayi (Reeve, 1857). The Festivus. 19(6): 56-60. [58]	Cited Type Designation	request
Houart, R. 1992. The genus Chicoreus and related genera (Gastropoda: Muricidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. (A), 154. Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. 1-188pp; figs 1-480 [126]	Cited	request
Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J.-P. 2011. Fossil and recent Muricidae of the world. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 1-648pp; pls 1-608; text figs 1-81 [404]	Cited Current Name

Lectotype (designated by D'Attilio & Hertz, 1987) is in NHMUK (196277).

Provenance:
This specimen was bought at the sale of Sir David Barclay’s collection in 1891, three years after his death. Although J. C. Melvill was at this sale and purchased several lots, the Murex barclayi was not one of them. Further investigation is needed to find out who purchased it at this sale and how it came to be in the Melvill-Tomlin collection.

The lectotype was originally in the Mrs de Burgh collection, which was purchased by V. W. MacAndrew and after his death passed to the NHM (Dance, 1986).