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Alluring subspecies from the west coast of Australia. A collectors choice specimen by color intensity, pattern contrast and form alone. Featuring a strong blackish dorsal pattern and highlighted by a deep lustrous nacre. Heavy shell showing a strong weight/size ratio, sharp contoured extremities, tuberculated extremity margins and sparse spotting on both lateral walls. The specimen also displays a gleaming black/brown and cream/brown base color accentuated by well-developed aperture teeth. The praeclara was lifted from a sponge nested on sand/rock substrate by a ROV at 85-90 meters, Zuytdorp Cliffs, Kalbarri, Western Australia in 2/2020. The specimen exhibits a micro-drill hole attempt on the columellar mid-lateral wall and a mini self-repaired nick on the posterior columellar siphon channel. Both imperfections can be viewed in the third figure. Grade: F++/F+++.