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Kalolophus antillarum (Reeve, 1842)

  • Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 104 [as Eucrassatella (Hybolophus) digueti]
  • 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. 241
  • Coan & Valentich-Scott (2012) Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Baja California to Northern Peru. - p. 398
  • DeVries (2016) Fossil Cenozoic crassatelline bivalves from Peru: New species and generic insights. - p. 681
  • Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 188

Statistics

Frequencyoccasional - 26 localities (13.2 %)
Sediment20 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment)

Size and comments

The literature gives a maximum length of 106mm. Beach finds reach 85mm. Valves mostly disarticulated. The illustrated specimen comes from a shell midden near Choyudo.

Images

Length 70.9mm.

Length 70.9mm.

Taxonomy > Crassatellidae > Kalolophus


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