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ELEGANT SCALES FORM AND RADIANT BROWN-YELLOWISH COLOR!! Splendid scales all around with usually irregular forms with cream brown combined with yellowish cream effect. The spire displays the best conditions you can get for this species with completely intact apex. Ventral side white aperture with glossy conditions and elegant reddish original operculum. Several scales forming the lip of the shell, fabulous. 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. Estimated value between 15-20 euros . Good luck and happy shelling. MEXICO PACIFIC