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Vitularia salebrosa SEVERAL SCALES WOOOOW!!!

36.3 mm Escollera El Eden, Colima,Mexico 2,00 €

Item

# 0003987268

Family

Muricidae

Name

Vitularia salebrosa - SEVERAL SCALES WOOOOW!!! , (P. P. King, 1832)

Size

36.3 mm, w/o

Locality

Escollera El Eden, Colima,Mexico

Note

UNUSUAL MULTIPLE SCALES ALL AROUND WOOOOW!! Dark brown with clear banding combined with the most delightful extra scales. The lip is coming with triple scales in the first row of scales , then the second varices is coming with double scales and then only one scale, curiously in orderly. Fantastic elevated dorsal and short body shape with intact apex, and siphon, the white aperture is just splendid. Gem minus. F++++. A real exquisite and exotic sculpture conditions. Extremely variable species with all kind of colors, forms, pattern and scales. Choose your favorite in this great auction. A species very adaptable to all types of conditions from deep waters to populations at low tide exposed to the sun light. They usually like shallow and turbid waters rich in nutrients and in estuarine areas with mangroves or where oysters, mussels and chamas are abundant, which is their main food, they are sea scavenger. Found attached between stones and oysters with mud about 6m to 7m deep. Escollera El Eden, between the Channel near Laguna de Cuyutlan, Colima, Mexico. November 2025. Value for this unique rarity with extra multiple scales and dark brown colors : 25-33 euros . Good luck and happy shelling. MEXICO PACIFIC

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