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Taxonomy > Veneridae > Megapitaria < Previous species - Next species > (within the family) Megapitaria squalida (Sowerby I, 1835) Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 176 Ortíz-Arellano & Flores-Campaña (2008) Catalogo descriptivo e ilustrado de los moluscos de la zona Intermareal de las islas de la bahía de Navachiste, Sinaloa, México. - p. 85 Huber (2010) Compendium of Bivalves. A Full-Color Guide to 3'300 of the World's Marine Bivalves. A Status on Bivalvia after 250 Years of Research. - p. 407 Coan & Valentich-Scott (2012) Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Baja California to Northern Peru. - p. 804 Bertsch & Aguilar Rosas (2016) Invertebrados Marinos del Noroeste de México. Marine Invertebrates of Northwest Mexico. - p. 172 Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 184 Statistics Frequency very common - 149 localities (75.63 %) Sediment 35 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment) Size and comments The maximum length of 130mm as indicated by the literature is not reached by beach finds which remain generally below 110mm. Images Length 70.6mm. Taxonomy > Veneridae > Megapitaria < Previous species - Next species > (within the family)