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Taxonomy > Veneridae > Megapitaria < Previous species - Next species > (within the family) Megapitaria aurantiaca (Sowerby I, 1831) Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 176 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. 84 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. 407 Coan & Valentich-Scott (2012) Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Baja California to Northern Peru. - p. 802 Bertsch & Aguilar Rosas (2016) Invertebrados Marinos del Noroeste de México. Marine Invertebrates of Northwest Mexico. - p. 172 Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 184 Statistics Frequency very common - 85 localities (43.15 %) Sediment 45 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment) Size and comments The literature indicates a maximum length of 130mm that is nearly reached by beach finds. Images Length 58.7mm. Taxonomy > Veneridae > Megapitaria < Previous species - Next species > (within the family)