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Vitularia salebrosa SPECIAL DARK BROWN!!!!!!

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

Item

# 0004117587

Family

Muricidae

Name

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

Size

31 mm, w/o

Locality

Isla Toriz, Melaque, Jal; Mexico

Note

STUNNING EXTRA DARK SPECIAL COLOR FORM!! Dominant glossy dark brown color form with some clear unique thick banding around and dense multiple scales between. White aperture with superb thick lip and elegant denticles, the spire is really intact and the apex just perfect. Gem-F+++ beauty. 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 uncommon brown golden color form : 25-33 euros . Good luck and happy shelling. MEXICO PACIFIC

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