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Oxymeris strigata - ELEGANT STRIPED PATTERN! , (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)
Size
97.7 mm, w/o
Locality
Cuastecomates, Jalisco, Mexico
Note
IRRESISTIBLE AND ELEGANT STRIPED UNIQUE PATTERN WOOOW!!
Elegant terebra hard to get nowadays with outstanding conditions. Some of the lines are connected to the next in the spire making a great effect. This large beauty is coming with superb yellowish background coloration and some brownish around between the black-brown stripes makes the superb effect, great lip, apex absent but still beautiful spire and original operculum. This sizes most are coming with light erosion and scars of life " hole scar". Not detracting the beauty of this uncommon species. F++-F+++. Found buried in thick yellow granulate sand about 8-11m deep. Cuastecomates, Jalisco, Mexico. January 2026. Value for this elegant pattern seldom seen terebra: 29-34 euros . Good luck and happy shelling. MEXICO PACIFIC