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Taxonomy > Cassidae > Cypraecassis < Previous species - Next species > (within the family) Cypraecassis tenuis Wood, 1828 Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 500 Skoglund (2002) Panamic province molluscan literature: additions and changes from 1971 through 2000. III Gastropoda. - p. 92 Beu (2010) Neogene tonnoidean gastropods of tropical and South America: contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and uplift of the Central American Isthmus. - p. 227 Bertsch & Aguilar Rosas (2016) Invertebrados Marinos del Noroeste de México. Marine Invertebrates of Northwest Mexico. - p. 210 Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 50 Statistics Frequency rare - 6 localities (3.05 %) Sediment 50 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment) Size and comments Complete specimens are very rare as beach finds (but not impossible). Generally only the solid outer lip can be found. In places offered from fishermen (as the shown specimen). Images Length 148.6mm. Taxonomy > Cassidae > Cypraecassis < Previous species - Next species > (within the family)