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Taxonomy > Fasciolariidae > Hesperaptyxis < Previous species - Next species > (within the family) Hesperaptyxis ambustus (Gould, 1853) Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 617 Brusca (1980) Common intertidal marine invertebrates of the Gulf of California. 2nd edition. - p. 182 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. 126 Snyder & Vermeij (2016) Hesperaptyxis, a new genus for some western American Fasciolariidae (Gastropoda), with the description of a new species. - p. 123 Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 78 Statistics Frequency occasional - 22 localities (11.17 %) Sediment 9 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment) Size and comments A maximum length of 71 mm is indicated by internet resources. Most beach finds remain below 50mm, but specimens with up to 60mm in length have been found. Images Length 42.9mm. Taxonomy > Fasciolariidae > Hesperaptyxis < Previous species - Next species > (within the family)