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Taxonomy > Tonnidae > Malea Malea ringens (Swainson, 1822) Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 499 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. 260 Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 28 Statistics Frequency common - 37 localities (18.78 %) Sediment 30 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment) Size and comments Maximum length of 270mm is indicated by internet resources; beach finds remain below 160mm. Often sold in souvenir shops or by fishermen. The illustrated specimen comes from a shell midden close to Choyudo. Images Length 83.9mm. Taxonomy > Tonnidae > Malea