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Semicassis centiquadrata (Valenciennes, 1832)

  • 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. 93
  • 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. 247
  • Michel-Morfin et al. (2014) Moluscos bentónicos de fondos blandos de la plataforma continental del sur de Jalisco y Colima. - p. 31
  • 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

Frequencyvery common - 91 localities (46.19 %)
Sediment34 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment)

Size and comments

Internet resources give a maximum length of 90mm that is nearly reached by beach finds. Specimens up to 70mm are not rare.

Images

Length 66mm.

Length 66mm.

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