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Zoila jeaniana praeclara UNIQUE LARGE BEAUTY
88.0 mm Kalbarri, Western Australia 405,00 €  |
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| Item | # 0004272123 |
| Family | Cypraeidae |
| Name | Zoila jeaniana praeclara - UNIQUE LARGE BEAUTY , Lorenz 2020 |
| Size | 88.0 mm |
| Locality | Kalbarri, Western Australia |
| Note | An atypically large inflated and strongly pigmented specimen with excellent dorsal blotching, notable inflation and a sharp semi-circular blue halo accentuating this colorful specimen from the west coast of Australia. The shell is highlighted by a deep glowing nacre, sharp and thick contoured extremity margins with beautiful spotting on both cream sandy and caramel tan lateral walls. The extremity tips are pigmented with chocolate brown/black and fringed with remarkable pastel peach hues. The specimen also displays a gleaming ink black/brown base tinted with two bluish streaks on the columellar side. The praeclara was taken from a sponge nested on sand/rock substrate by a ROV at 77 meters off Kalbarri, Western Australia in 2023. The specimen exhibits a sliver thin shallow chip on the labral internal channel extreminty tip, another self-galzed mini-shallow chip on the columellar exterior tip (white spot in image) and minute smooth glazed subnacre bemishes (mico blisters) on thel labral posterior dorsum above the lateral wall. Grade: F++. |
| Seller | Seashell Trader (418) - Register to view Feedback |
| Seller Country | AUSTRALIA |
| Shipment / PaymentShip. / Paym. | Available for registered users... |
| Curr. of this item |  EURO |
| Start Price | 205,00 € |
| Current Price | 405,00 € - offered by shell_hunter - Auction closed -
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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 € |
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| End | 30-09-2026 > 21:30:00 |
| shellauction.net timeServer time | 01-10-2026 > 02:21:27 |
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