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Taxonomy > Cassidae > Cypraecassis < Previous species - Next species > (within the family) Cypraecassis coarctata Sowerby I, 1825 Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 501 Brusca (1980) Common intertidal marine invertebrates of the Gulf of California. 2nd edition. - p. 172 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. 209 Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 50 Statistics Frequency very common - 94 localities (47.21 %) Sediment 65 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment) Size and comments The literature and internet resources give a maximum length of nearly 90mm. Specimens up to 80mm are common; but they may even exceed 90mm in length. Images Length 71.7mm. Taxonomy > Cassidae > Cypraecassis < Previous species - Next species > (within the family)