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Cypraea coxeni pseudohesperina NEW WORLD RECORD SIZE
27.9 mm Papua New Guinea 10,00 €
Item
# 0003990209
Family
Cypraeidae
Name
Cypraea coxeni pseudohesperina - NEW WORLD RECORD SIZE , Bergonzoni, 2016
Size
27.9 mm
Locality
Papua New Guinea
Note
Just touching 28 mm, this magnificent GIANT represents a NEW WORLD RECORD SIZE for the form, the current official WRS being 25.5 mm. In addition to its WRS, the specimen is of remarkable beauty – elongate and slender of form, and exhibiting a beautiful pattern of dense, evenly distributed stippling, across an antique ivory dorsum. An IMPORTANT specimen for the highly advanced Cypraeidae specialist, or collector of giant-sized / WRS shells. Data: Off Rabaul, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea; upon reef substrate; 4-6 m; dived; 1989. Size: 27.9 mm. Grading: Fine++++ (one tiny inclusion hidden on columellar margin). Provenance: JES Collection; London / Melbourne.
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AUSTRALIA
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Start Price
1,00 €
Current Price
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