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Vitularia salebrosa BROWN AND DOUBLE BAND!!!

36 mm Escollera El Eden, Colima,Mexico 5,00 €

Item

# 0004253702

Family

Muricidae

Name

Vitularia salebrosa - BROWN AND DOUBLE BAND!!! , (P. P. King, 1832)

Size

36 mm, w/o

Locality

Escollera El Eden, Colima,Mexico

Note

DARK BROWN COLOR FORM AND UNUSUAL WITH DOUBLE BAND!! Dark brown elegant "Golden" color with extraordinary and unusual remarkable 2 bands between the dorsal and anterior side. Impeccable spire with the most excellent complete apex. Extra thick colossal lip with some kind of denticles, white aperture color with original reddish operculum, the lip shows a dense exquisite multiple scales between. 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

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