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Crossata californica (Hinds, 1843)

  • Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 509
  • Brusca (1980) Common intertidal marine invertebrates of the Gulf of California. 2nd edition. - p. 172 [as Bursa sonorana]
  • Hertz (1999) Illustration of the types named by S. Stillman Berry in his "Leaflets in Malacology" revised. - p. 24 [as Bursa californica sonorana]
  • Skoglund (2002) Panamic province molluscan literature: additions and changes from 1971 through 2000. III Gastropoda. - p. 98
  • Beu (2010) Neogene tonnoidean gastropods of tropical and South America: contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and uplift of the Central American Isthmus. - p. 68 [as Crossata ventricosa]
  • Bertsch & Aguilar Rosas (2016) Invertebrados Marinos del Noroeste de México. Marine Invertebrates of Northwest Mexico. - p. 211
  • Powell & Berschauer (2017) Crossata (Gastropoda: Bursidae) in the eastern Pacific: A morphologic and paleontologic perspective. - p. 182
  • Berschauer & Clark (2018) Sea Shells of Southern California. Marine Shells of the Californian Province. - p. 64
  • Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 52

Statistics

Frequencyoccasional - 19 localities (9.64 %)
Sediment46 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment)

Size and comments

Up to 160mm in length according to the literature and internet resources; beach finds remain below 100mm. In places sold by fishermen or at souvenir shops (as the second illustrated specimen).

Images

Length 93.5mm.

Length 93.5mm.

Length 66.4mm.

Length 66.4mm.

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