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Taxonomy > Muricidae > Plicopurpura < Previous species - Next species > (within the family) Plicopurpura columellaris (Lamarck, 1816) Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 553 Brusca (1980) Common intertidal marine invertebrates of the Gulf of California. 2nd edition. - p. 176 [as Purpura pansa] Skoglund (2002) Panamic province molluscan literature: additions and changes from 1971 through 2000. III Gastropoda. - p. 117 Gurgo Salice & Cáceres Martínez (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 108 Statistics Frequency common - 37 localities (18.09 %) Sediment 74 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment) Size and comments A maximum length of 84mm is reported by the literature. Beach finds reach about 35mm, rarely more than 50mm. Images Length 26.6mm. Taxonomy > Muricidae > Plicopurpura < Previous species - Next species > (within the family)