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Neorapana muricata EXCEPTIONAL APERTURE!!!! 
72 mm Barra de Navidad, Jalisco,Mexico 54,00 €  |
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| Item | # 0003674618 | | Family | Muricidae | | Name | Neorapana muricata - EXCEPTIONAL APERTURE!!!! |
| Size | 72 mm, w/o |
| Locality | Barra de Navidad, Jalisco,Mexico |
| Note | LARGE SIZE WITH EXTENDED DEEP ORNAGE APERTURE AND WAVY LIP FORM!! The biggest of all offered here with 72mm, superb thickness, massive and heavy. Really elegant wide and wavy exceptional curved lip combined with the fabulous extended aperture size with intensive and vivid orange color. Elongated and curved siphonal canal, thick and tiny multiple scales combined with high nodules all around, magnificent spire-apex with the best conditions for this giant size. Dark brown and pinkish color form.
Some natural imperfections as usual, like tiny scars, worm holes and chip in some scales, but still impressive great beauty. F++-F+++. The beautiful orange fresh aperture is just exquisite and elegant with the best shinny colors. Very hard to get this species and with this incredible scales-nodules conditions. In this special auction you can admire and choose these incredible rare pieces of Neorapana muricata with amazing scales sculpture and fresh colors, choose your favorite. Do not miss this unique opportunity. For advancer collectors and lovers of rarities and aesthetic pieces of nature. This particular species is always found attached to large stones and apparently feeds more at night. Devourer of marine worms! The body is generally always accompanied and attached by many types of calcareous organisms and algae making them invisible in many cases. You need to have a very good eye to find them, and they are rare. Very rarely do you find good specimens with impressive conditions like this. Really hard to clean taking hours to get this result. The pictures taken are real and we do our best to make the color look exactly like the original. All colors are fresh in my shells as I collect everything myself and clean it before the auction. Some colors such as the orange color in the aperture may fade over time. But usually the color stays the same for months or years. Found attached between muddy stones about 7m deep. Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mexico. April 2025. Value for the biggest and the longest deep orange aperture: 150-180 euros. High resolution image available on request. Good luck and Happy shelling!!! MEXICO PACIFIC |
| Seller | MEXICO PACIFIC (688) - Register to view Feedback | | Seller Country | MEXICO |
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| Curr. of this item |  EURO |
| Start Price | 2,00 € |
| Current Price | 54,00 € - offered by Kaon1 - You must be registered to make your offer -
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| Range | Bid Increment |
| under 100 € | 1 € |
| from 100 to 200 € | 2 € |
| from 200 to 500 € | 5 € |
| from 500 to 1000 € | 10 € |
| over 1000 € | 25 € |
| | End | 30-04-2025 > 21:15:00 | | shellauction.net timeServer time | 30-04-2025 > 21:31:31 | | Time left | ... | |
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