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Vitularia salebrosa UNIQUE GRANULATE FORM!!!
35 mm     Escollera El Eden, Colima,Mexico     6,00 €
Item# 0004253701
FamilyMuricidae
NameVitularia salebrosa - UNIQUE GRANULATE FORM!!! , (P. P. King, 1832)
Size35 mm, w/o
LocalityEscollera El Eden, Colima,Mexico
NoteUNIQUE GRANULATE CONDITIONS BETWEEN THE SEVERAL SCALES!! Resplendent clear unusual granulate conditions between the dense multiple scales. Brown-white yellowish granulated spots colors, the spire presents a white-cream spiral ringed band all around to the apex almost. The ventral side shows a ringed Marvelous orange color combined with the white inner aperture color, reddish operculum. A few minor light erosion as usual for the species, not really detracting this beauty. F+++-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 13-16 euros . Good luck and happy shelling. MEXICO PACIFIC
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Seller CountryMEXICO
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Start Price2,00 €
Current Price6,00 € - offered by susu  - Auction closed - 

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Bid history:
olina-003 (11) 2 €20-08-2026 > 13:49:141
ramses1004 (275) 5 €26-08-2026 > 20:32:523
shellking1960 (1188) 5 €26-08-2026 > 18:19:142
susu (41) 6 €26-08-2026 > 21:08:314