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Naria albuginosa (Gray, 1825)

  • Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 492
  • Burgess (1985) Cowries of the world. - p. 224
  • Skoglund (2002) Panamic province molluscan literature: additions and changes from 1971 through 2000. III Gastropoda. - p. 88
  • Bertsch & Aguilar Rosas (2016) Invertebrados Marinos del Noroeste de México. Marine Invertebrates of Northwest Mexico. - p. 197
  • Lorenz (2017) Cowries - A Guide to the Gastropod Family Cypraeidae: Volume 1: Biology and Systematics. - p. 247
  • Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 38
  • Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 38 [as Naria albuginosa nariaeformis]

Statistics

Frequencycommon - 49 localities (24.87 %)
Sediment59 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment)

Size and comments

Internet resources report a maximum length of 35mm; beach finds remain below 30mm.

Images

Length 25.1mm.

Length 25.1mm.

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