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Vitularia salebrosa SAND COLOR EFFECT!!!!!!!

34.1 mm Escollera El Eden, Colima,Mexico 6,00 €

Item

# 0004223253

Family

Muricidae

Name

Vitularia salebrosa - SAND COLOR EFFECT!!!!!!!

Size

34.1 mm, w/o

Locality

Escollera El Eden, Colima,Mexico

Note

MAJESTIC DENSE MICRO GRANULATE LIKE SAND EFFECT!! Well structured micro dense granulate structure making a unique sand effect color and pattern between. Exquisite banding, scales, granulate and elongated form. Excellent intact spire and apex. A few minor imperfections not really detracting this beauty. F+++. 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 6m deep. Escollera el Eden, Laguna de Cuyutlan, Manzanillo, Jalisco, Mexico. June 2026. Value for this sand color and granulate effect: 18-22 euros . Good luck and happy shelling. MEXICO PACIFIC

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