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Vitularia salebrosa WONDERFUL QUALITY WOOOOW

37.8 mm Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mex. 2,00 €

Item

# 0004185643

Family

Muricidae

Name

Vitularia salebrosa - WONDERFUL QUALITY WOOOOW , (P. P. King, 1832)

Size

37.8 mm, w/o

Locality

Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mex.

Note

WONDERFUL AND EXCELLENT INTACT CONDITIONS WOOOOW!! The best incomparable and impeccable real Jewel. With the highest excellent conditions you can get for the species. Impressive perfect and detailed spire with marvelous ribs and seldom seen intact apex. Extraordinary thicker scales all around the most elegant dark brown golden color form, with some darker spots in the ventral side with banding effect. Delightful white aperture with the thickest colossal lip ever, with some granulate thick denticles outer lip. The best of the best for the species. No erosion , no holes , really excellent seldom seen conditions. Gem. 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. Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mexico. May 2026. Value for this brown great color and spectacular Gem seldom seen conditions: 25-28 euros . Good luck and happy shelling. MEXICO PACIFIC

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