Observações: Anteriormente identificada como Aspella anceps (Rios 1970, 1975)
Descrição original: Radwin, G. E.; d’Attilio, A. (1976). Murex shells of the World: An illustrated guide to the Muricidae. Stanford University Press. page(s): 220, textfigs 161-162, pl. 1 fig. 10
Referência: Garrigues, B. & Houart, R. (2025). Description of six new species of Muricidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Muricoidea) from the East China Sea, the Red Sea, East Panama and Brazil and rehabilitation of Murex heros Fulton, 1936. Xenophora Taxonomy. 48: 3-18.