| Reference no. | Description | year | Name used | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8369 | Darwin, C.R. 1854 A monograph on the sub-clas Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. Ray Society, London. 684 p. | 1854 | Tetraclita purpurascens | 337-339 |
| 3585 | Jennings, L.S. 1918 Revision of the Cirripedia of New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 50:56-63. | 1918 | Tetraclita purpurascens | 61-62 |
| 82508 | Broch, H. 1922 Studies on Pacific Cirripedes. Papers from Dr Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-1916 (10). Vidensk. Medd. Dan. Naturhist. Foren., 73:215-358. | 1922 | Tetraclita purpurascens | 337 |
| 3545 | Linzey, J.T. 1942 The balanomorph barnacles of the Kermadec Islands. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 71:279-281. | 1942 | Tetraclita purpurascens | 279 |
| 3547 | Moore, L.B. 1944 Some intertidal sessile barnacles of New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 73:315-334. | 1944 | Tetraclita purpurascens | 333 |
| 99821 | Jones, D.S. 2003 The biogeography of Western Australian shallow-water barnacles. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia 2:479-496. | 2003 | Tetraclita purpurascens | 487 |
| 833 | Ruppert, E.E., R.S. Fox and R.D. Barnes 2004 Invertebrate Zoology. A functional evolutionary approach. 7th Ed. Brooks/Cole, Thomson Learning learning, Inc. 990 p. | 2004 | Tetraclita purpurascens | --> |