Found in September 2024 west of Leeman in Western Australia. A very round reevei form found on our Midwest Coast. This is one of a very few specimens we have collected over the past 15 years. The shell is fresh dead collected from silty sand in 195 metres of water.
Reevei are found by divers off Rottnest that are occasionally presented as microsphaerica. While they are very impressive shells being large, inflated and heavily malleated specimens highly valued by collectors, they are not microsphaerica.
Microsphaerica is a name applied by Raybaudi in 1980 to small very rotund and weakly malleated specimens collected off our Mid West Coast.
The shell is in as alive condition but with octopus drill hole in its base. A true crime scene.
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