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Crepidula onyx Sowerby I, 1824

  • Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 460
  • Skoglund (2002) Panamic province molluscan literature: additions and changes from 1971 through 2000. III Gastropoda. - p. 73
  • Paredes & Cardoso (2007) La familia Calyptraeidae en Perú (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda). - p. 178
  • Berschauer & Clark (2018) Sea Shells of Southern California. Marine Shells of the Californian Province. - p. 54
  • Collin (2019) Calyptraeidae from the northeast Pacific (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda). - p. 118
  • Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 36

Statistics

Frequencyvery common - 110 localities (55.84 %)
Sediment34 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment)

Size and comments

Up to 72mm in length according to the literature; beach finds in the Gulf of California reach about 60mm in length.

Images

Length 53.3mm.

Length 53.3mm.

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