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Umbilia armeniaca andreyi Pretty Andreyi !!!
73.7 mm     Walpole, Western Australia     146,00 €
Item# 0004199341
FamilyCypraeidae
NameUmbilia armeniaca andreyi - Pretty Andreyi !!! , Lorenz & Beals, 2013
Size73.7 mm
LocalityWalpole, Western Australia
NoteWe have put considerable effort into finding armeniaca off the West Australian Coast. This was prompted by the mystique of andreyi and clarksoni and the limited number of specimens available to evaluate their forms and form distribution. I now feel I am in a position to form an opinion on the subject and in my view shell colour readily separates the forms. I considered there are three basic armeniaca forms in Western Australia being andreyi on our lower west coast. A form I have chosen to refer to as “verawestralis” on our south coast between Walpole in the west through to Israelite Bay in the east and type armeniaca in the GAB. This primary division into three groups has been driven by ice age isolation when sea levels were up to 140 metres lower than they are today. Andreyi typically have milky tan dorsa and porcelain white bases. “Verawestralis” are very colourful with rich peach apricot bases and dark highly speckled dorsa and type armeniaca  having the well-known orange dorsum and base. I consider clarksoni to be a shallow water variant that has evolved with onshore migration of “verawestralis” like diprotodon in South Australia. Recent inshore migration of these forms must have occurred as both of their habitats were 100 metres above sea level 15,000 years ago. Superimposed on this, the three forms have come back in contact with the adjoining form as sea levels have risen to current levels producing a mixing and a hybrid population. In the Augusta /Margaret River area we see significant variation in colour and size with specimens having traits of both andreyi and “verawestralis”. I refer to shells with apricot peach bases from this area as Cypraea andreyi “hybrid” to distinguish them from china white based shells found at the same location. Similarly in the Western GAB we see the form westralis. This specimen was dead collected from 105 metres of water south of Walpole in Western Australia. It is similar to clarksoni but I prefer to call it "verawestralis" to distiqhish it from the limited number of specimens dive collected on the patch off Cape Legrand in Esperance Bay. A crabbed shell with obvious growth defect to the top of the dorsum and some nacre etch.
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Start Price1,00 €
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Bid history:
orepaul87 (134) 2 €24-07-2026 > 02:25:022
Morgan-B (200) 2 €22-07-2026 > 22:13:491
ra (680) 60 €24-07-2026 > 14:56:284
cyp378 (108) 65 €24-07-2026 > 07:43:333
Jeffonese (985) 72 €24-07-2026 > 16:47:025
cyp378 (108) 88 €26-07-2026 > 12:38:516
cyp378 (108) 100 €28-07-2026 > 07:54:388
Jeffonese (985) 102 €28-07-2026 > 06:38:017
cyp378 (108) 120 €28-07-2026 > 07:54:459
cyp378 (108) 134 €29-07-2026 > 15:45:5011
cyp378 (108) 144 €29-07-2026 > 15:46:0112
deeps (134) 146 €29-07-2026 > 09:45:3810