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Vitularia salebrosa SPECIAL BROWN ELONGATED!
51.5 mm Isla Toriz, Melaque, Jal; Mexico 11,00 €  |
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| Item | # 0004020881 | | Family | Muricidae | | Name | Vitularia salebrosa - SPECIAL BROWN ELONGATED! , (P. P. King, 1832) |
| Size | 51.5 mm, w/o |
| Locality | Isla Toriz, Melaque, Jal; Mexico |
| Note | LARGE ELONGATED SPECIAL BROWN EXOTIC COLOR!! This is a large size Vitularia salebrosa, hard to get at this sizes nowadays with superb conditions and intact spire, apex. This stunning beauty is coming with a real unusual intact apex, splendid elongated and intact nodules spire conditions, undulated and scaled lip with intact siphon. Orange lips aperture between the siphonal canal, columellar lip and outer lip. The aperture is white with some denticles in the lip side and reddish original operculum. 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. January 2026. Value for this unique rarity with elongated form, intact seldom seen apex, spire, lip and siphon with great unique brown exotic color form : 28-35 euros . Good luck and happy shelling. MEXICO PACIFIC |
| Seller | MEXICO PACIFIC (755) - Register to view Feedback | | Seller Country | MEXICO |
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| Start Price | 2,00 € |
| Current Price | 11,00 € - offered by qlzqqlz - You must be registered to make your offer -
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| Range | Bid Increment |
| under 100 € | 1 € |
| from 100 to 200 € | 2 € |
| from 200 to 500 € | 5 € |
| from 500 to 1000 € | 10 € |
| over 1000 € | 25 € |
| | End | 28-01-2026 > 21:15:00 | | shellauction.net timeServer time | 28-01-2026 > 08:43:14 | | Time left | 12 hours, 31 min, 46 sec | |
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