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Taxonomy > Cardiidae > Laevicardium < Previous species - Next species > (within the family) Laevicardium elatum (Sowerby I, 1833) Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 160 Brusca (1980) Common intertidal marine invertebrates of the Gulf of California. 2nd edition. - p. 146 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. 77 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. 303 Coan & Valentich-Scott (2012) Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Baja California to Northern Peru. - p. 423 Bertsch & Aguilar Rosas (2016) Invertebrados Marinos del Noroeste de México. Marine Invertebrates of Northwest Mexico. - p. 165 Berschauer & Clark (2018) Sea Shells of Southern California. Marine Shells of the Californian Province. - p. 112 Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 154 ter Poorten (2024) A Taxonomic Iconography of Living Cardiidae. - p. 380 Statistics Frequency very common - 89 localities (44.67 %) Sediment 22 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment) Size and comments The literature indicates a maximum length of 190mm; beach finds remain smaller and reach about 100mm, rarely up to 135mm. Images Length 76.1mm. Taxonomy > Cardiidae > Laevicardium < Previous species - Next species > (within the family)