Pterygia crenulata (Gmelin, 1791)
Length: 23.1mm, Width: 9.1mm, Height: 8.2mm. snorkeling, 2 ft, under rubble, in fine sand. Agana Bay, Guam. Collected by Bob Abela on 08 October 2005.
Distribution: Indo-Pacific.
Availability: Uncommon.
Habitat: In coral and weedy sand, from intertidal to a depth of 92m. (Cernohorsky)
Size: to 39mm. (Cernohorsky)
References:
Abbott, R. Tucker & S. Peter Dance. Compendium of Seashells. p. 204.
Cernohorsky, Walter O. 1991. The Mitridae of the World, Part 2. The Subfamily Mitrinae Concluded and Subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monograph of Marine Mollusca, p. 147-149; pl. D, fig. 6-8; pl. 147, fig. 1-3; pl. 148.
---- 1971. Marine Shells of the Pacific, Revised edition. p. 161-162; pl. 38, fig. 259.
Kay, E. Alison. 1979. Hawaiian Marine Shells. p. 307, fig 105 D.
Pechar, Prior & Parkinson. Mitre Shells from the Pacific and Indian Oceans. pl. 24, fig. 1 & 3.
Robin, Alain & Jean-Claude Martin. 2004. Mitridae Costellariidae. p. 17, pl. M-21.
Salisbury & Thorsson. 2002. Living Mitridae: Chapter 6, Group PT, Part 2. Internet Hawaiian Shell News. Nov 2002, Feature 1. p. 8-9.
Springsteen, F. J. & F. M. Leobrera. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. p. 200; pl. 55, fig. 17.
Wilson, Barry. 1994. Australian Marine Shells, Part 2 p. 153; pl. 33, fig. 12 a-b.