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Conus fergusoni Sowerby II, 1873

  • Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 667
  • McLean & Nybakken (1979) On the growth stages of Conus fergusoni Sowerby, 1873, and the reinstatement of Conus xanthicus Dall, 1910, and a new species of Conus from the Galapagos Islands. - p. 136
  • Skoglund (2002) Panamic province molluscan literature: additions and changes from 1971 through 2000. III Gastropoda. - p. 164
  • Tenorio et al. (2012) The families Conilithidae and Conidae - The Conus of the Eastern Pacific. - p. 74
  • Tucker & Tenorio (2013) Illustrated Catalog of the Living Cone Shells. - p. 188
  • Bertsch & Aguilar Rosas (2016) Invertebrados Marinos del Noroeste de México. Marine Invertebrates of Northwest Mexico. - p. 236
  • Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 82

Statistics

Frequencyoccasional - 18 localities (9.14 %)
Sediment29 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment)

Size and comments

The maximum length of 183mm as indicated by the literature is far not reached by beach finds that remain below 120mm. In places specimens are sold (such as the second image).

Images

Length 64.8mm.

Length 64.8mm.

Length 96.9mm.

Length 96.9mm.

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