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Carditamera bajaensis González & Giribet, 2012

  • Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 108, fig. 237a
  • 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. 75 [as Carditamera affinis]
  • 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. 252 [as Carditamera affinis]
  • Coan & Valentich-Scott (2012) Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Baja California to Northern Peru. - p. 377 [as Carditamera affinis [fide González & Giribet 2012]]
  • González & Giribet (2012) A New Cryptic Species of Carditid Bivalve from the Gulf of California (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Archiheterodonta, Carditidae). - p. 243
  • Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 172

Statistics

Frequencyvery common - 89 localities (44.67 %)
Sediment50 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment)

Size and comments

The literature gives a maximum length of 85mm that is even exceeded by beach finds.

Images

Length 35.3mm.

Length 35.3mm.

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