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Vitularia salebrosa MASTERPIECE GIANT WOOOW!

53.1 mm Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mex. 2,00 €

Item

# 0004286662

Family

Muricidae

Name

Vitularia salebrosa - MASTERPIECE GIANT WOOOW!

Size

53.1 mm, w/o

Locality

Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mex.

Note

SELDOM SEEN GIANT MASTERPIECE WOOOOW! Giant size for the population in Barra de Navidad combined with Phenomenal conditions. Dark brown caramel effect with light granulate structure between the varices-scales. The elongated spire displays the best conditions you can get for this species with intact scales conditions and completely intact apex, unusual for giant sizes, the real thing! Some extra wide scales around the anterior dorsal side. Ventral side white aperture with glossy conditions and elegant reddish original operculum. The shell was found exactly with this conditions, almost no natural defects. F+++-Gem. 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. Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mexico. September 2026. Estimated value between 33-38 euros . Good luck and happy shelling. MEXICO PACIFIC

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