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| Item | # 0002042709 | | Family | Volutidae | | Name | Notovoluta sp. - ULTRA-RARE |
| Size | 72.4 mm |
| Locality | Australia |
| Note | EXTRA SPECIAL SALE - PART 2: Part two of my extra special sale comprised entirely of exceptional specimens from my private collection, representing highlights of my collecting and dealing career. Another opportunity to acquire outstanding and unique seashells from one of the world’s pre-eminent collections. NOTOVOLUTA SP.: This specimen represents a conundrum for the advanced Volutidae specialist to resolve. I acquired the specimen with the collection data of ‘Off Portland, Victoria, Australia’, having been collected in a craypot. If this data is accurate, then it potentially represents one of the few known specimens of the VICTORIAN form of kreuslerae, (a species of which almost all known specimens come from South Australia). The ultra-rare Victorian form was originally described as a full species by Brazier, (Notovoluta rossiterie), (see Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales; 22:779), and the holotype is illustrated as figs. ‘F’ & ‘G’ upon plate 72 of ‘The Living Volutes’, (Weaver & du Pont, 1970). Wilson and Darragh consider this holotype to be a form of kreuslerae, a diagnosis with which I concur. However, the morphological characteristics of the current specimen accord well with Notovoluta pseudolirata, (a species which I also believe to be a form of kreuslerae), namely: more slender and elongate form; greatly reduced pattern; greatly reduced peripheral nodes. Whether the current specimen comes from the Western or Eastern end of the kreuslerae range, and its ultimate taxonomic placement, I leave to the advanced Volutidae student to determine. Fresh-dead-collected, retaining full colour, and with nothing but a single growth disruption upon an early whorl, and one tiny predatory mark. Size: 72.4 mm (length). Grading: F++. Data: Off Portland, Victoria, Australia; upon mud/sand/rubble substrate; 80-140 m; craypot; 1980. Provenance: JES private collection; Melbourne/London. |
| Seller | JES (1238) -
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| Start Price | 1,00 € |
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