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Taxonomy > Carditidae > Cardites < Previous species - Next species > (within the family) Cardites tricolor (Sowerby I, 1833) Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 109 [as Cardita laticostata] 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. 74 [as Cardites laticostatus] 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. 252 [as Cardites laticostatus] Coan & Valentich-Scott (2012) Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Baja California to Northern Peru. - p. 379 [as Cardites laticostatus] Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 172 [as Cardites laticostatus] Statistics Frequency common - 34 localities (17.26 %) Sediment 14 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment) Size and comments The maximum length of 60mm (as indicated by the literature) is not reached by beach finds which is around 40mm. As by-catch on shell middens up to 50mm. Images Length 40.9mm. Taxonomy > Carditidae > Cardites < Previous species - Next species > (within the family)