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Conus nux Broderip, 1833

  • Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 669
  • Skoglund (2002) Panamic province molluscan literature: additions and changes from 1971 through 2000. III Gastropoda. - p. 164
  • Tenorio et al. (2012) The families Conilithidae and Conidae - The Conus of the Eastern Pacific. - p. 65
  • Tucker & Tenorio (2013) Illustrated Catalog of the Living Cone Shells. - p. 299
  • Bertsch & Aguilar Rosas (2016) Invertebrados Marinos del Noroeste de México. Marine Invertebrates of Northwest Mexico. - p. 237
  • Battaglia & Bertoli Battaglia (2020) Seashells of Las Perlas / Conchiglie delle Isole delle Perle. - p. 87
  • Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 84

Statistics

Frequencyvery common - 80 localities (40.61 %)
Sediment67 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment)

Size and comments

The literature indicates a maximum length of 30mm; beach finds remain generally below 25mm.

Images

Length 20.9mm.

Length 20.9mm.

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