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Turritriton gibbosus SPECIAL DARK BROWN COLOR

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

Item

# 0004288334

Family

Ranellidae

Name

Turritriton gibbosus - SPECIAL DARK BROWN COLOR

Size

30.9 mm, w/o

Locality

Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mex.

Note

DEEP BRICK SPECIAL BROWN COLOR AND AMAZING UNIQUE SCULPTURE!! Elongated clear phenomenal shape combined between long siphon and spire. Exceedingly rich "Brick" brown color, in conjunction with a dense micro granulated nodules-ribs all around with Marvelous rustic texture. Delightful conditions for the species, the protoconch is just excellent, intact impeccable thick lip and excellent siphon. Look at this spectacular beauty of nature art. Look a this refined shell, with the best detailed structure and sculpture all around the body. Gem-F+++. For advancer collectors and any lover of special color shells. This solitary species are really uncommon, hardly visible in situ, most of the time they are really deep in mud and between stones making a crazy camouflage with their colors and hair-periostracum, but for all fully with mud in their body's, really only for experts to find them or with grat luck. Found attached between stones with brown-green algae about 7m deep. Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mexico. September 2026. Estimated value between 20-25 euro. Good luck and happy shelling. MEXICO PACIFIC

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