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Taxonomy > Muricidae > Mexacanthina < Previous species - Next species > (within the family) Mexacanthina lugubris (Sowerby I, 1822) Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 552 Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 552 [as Acanthina tyrianthina] Brusca (1980) Common intertidal marine invertebrates of the Gulf of California. 2nd edition. - p. 176 [as Acanthina tyrianthina] Bertsch & Aguilar Rosas (2016) Invertebrados Marinos del Noroeste de México. Marine Invertebrates of Northwest Mexico. - p. 216 Berschauer & Clark (2018) Sea Shells of Southern California. Marine Shells of the Californian Province. - p. 90 Gurgo Salice & Cáceres Martínez (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 106 Houart (2024) Living Muricidae of the World: Ocenebrinae. - p. 45 Statistics Frequency common - 46 localities (20.1 %) Sediment 37 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment) Size and comments Internet resources mention a maximum length of 54mm; beach finds generally remain below 30mm. Images Length 29.1mm. Taxonomy > Muricidae > Mexacanthina < Previous species - Next species > (within the family)