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Umbilia armeniaca westralica PRETTY

85.7 mm GAB, Eucla, Western Australia 1,00 €

Item

# 0004024537

Family

Cypraeidae

Name

Umbilia armeniaca westralica - PRETTY , Vercoi 1912

Size

85.7 mm

Locality

GAB, Eucla, Western Australia

Note

Pretty example of westralica, with distinctive chestnut brown dorsal botching, thick glossy nacre and perfect extremities and scattered dark mid-dorsum brown spotting. The shell is moderately heavy for its size (77.8 grams) and shows remarkable form and a distinctive mantle line paired by rows smaller dots. The shell is wonderfull patterned, modestly rostrated, has a inflated dorsum and complemented with a thick nacre. Trawled at 130-150 meters off the western Great Australian Bight, Eucla, Western Australia. There is a heavily glossed and discolored sand inclusion mid-dorsum just below the dorsal line, easily seen in several images. Grade: F+++.

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