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Vitularia salebrosa SPECIAL BROWN-GREENISH!!

39 mm Isla Toriz, Melaque, Jal; Mexico 11,00 €

Item

# 0004020883

Family

Muricidae

Name

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

Size

39 mm, w/o

Locality

Isla Toriz, Melaque, Jal; Mexico

Note

SPECIAL BROWN-GREENISH COLOR FORM WITH MARVELOUS CONDITIONS WOOOOOW!!! An absolutely MAGNIFICENT granulate sandy sculpture and structure with the finest scales combined with multiple nodules all around the perfect spire and intact incredible apex. Fully with multiple nodules all around with exotic combination of brown and greenish colors except for the apex-spire side and white aperture elegant color. F+++-Gem. 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 the most nodules shoulder-spire and brown-greenish color : 25-33 euros . Good luck and happy shelling. MEXICO PACIFIC

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