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Mexacanthina angelica (Oldroyd, 1918)

  • Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 552
  • Brusca (1980) Common intertidal marine invertebrates of the Gulf of California. 2nd edition. - p. 176
  • Skoglund (2002) Panamic province molluscan literature: additions and changes from 1971 through 2000. III Gastropoda. - p. 114 [as Mexacanthina lugubris angelica]
  • Bertsch & Aguilar Rosas (2016) Invertebrados Marinos del Noroeste de México. Marine Invertebrates of Northwest Mexico. - p. 215
  • Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 106
  • Houart (2024) Living Muricidae of the World: Ocenebrinae. - p. 44

Statistics

Frequencyoccasional - 18 localities (9.14 %)
Sediment32 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment)

Size and comments

The maximum length of 46mm as indicated by internet resources is not reached by beach finds that remain below 35mm.

Images

Length 30.6mm.

Length 30.6mm.

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