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Vitularia salebrosa SPECIAL GOLDEN BROWN!!!!

46 mm Isla Toriz, Melaque, Jal; Mexico 2,00 €

Item

# 0004117585

Family

Muricidae

Name

Vitularia salebrosa - SPECIAL GOLDEN BROWN!!!! , (P. P. King, 1832)

Size

46 mm, w/o

Locality

Isla Toriz, Melaque, Jal; Mexico

Note

GOLDEN BROWN SPECIAL COLOR FORM WOOOOOW!! Irresistible unique elevated bod shape with the most wide form of all offered here. Really large aperture form with white bright color. The inner aperture is coming white with lip denticles. The dorsal and spire shell color is lovely golden brown with a delightful conditions , intact spire and apex. F+++-F++++. A truly exquisite and exotic sculpture. Extremely variable species with all kinds of colors, shapes, patterns, 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, Calyptraeidae species and chamas are abundant, which is their main food, they are sea scavenger and I have even found it eating dead fishes between the rocks. Found attached between stones and oysters with mud about 3m to 7m deep. Isla Toriz, Melaque, Jalisco, Mexico. March 2026. Value for this wide, elevated and superb great golden brown color form : 25-33 euros . Good luck and happy shelling. MEXICO PACIFIC

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