Mauritia eglantina - OVERGLAZE WITH HEART , Duclos, 1833
Size
64.8 mm
Locality
Philippines
Note
F+++. Exceptional. This great GREEN beauty has a cloudy pattern worked in into the glaze and a freak growth in a shape of a heart on the dorsum This type of shell is found occasionally in shallow reefs, but it is not common at all. Never seen a unique piece as this before.
Philippines. Tawi Tawi. 10-25 m. 2013.
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