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New Additions July 10, 2010


BUCCINIDAE
688
Babylonia valentiana Swainson, 1822 Somalia 57mm f++ $20.00

w/op, large beauties, cream with brown spotting
2226
Clinopegma polygramma Dall, 1907 Japan 62mm+ f+ $20.00

w/op, turreted, bulbous protoconch, lightly corded
2225
Neptunea contraria Linne, 1771 Portugal 80mm f++ $50.00

w/op, SINISTRAL species, a lovely deep-water specimen

CONIDAE
74
Conus aurisiacus Linne, 1758 Indonesia 48mm f++ $45.00

w/op, beautiful pink, cream & black banded pattern
2222
Conus axelrodi Walls, 1978 Taiwan 15mm f+ $15.00

lovely dark pink specimens, just a few
20
Conus trigonus Reeve, 1848 W Australia 51mm f++ $35.00

w/op, golden-brown & white banded, natural lip
921
Conus victor Broderip 1842 Indonesia 30mm f++ $95.00

honey-gold background with white tenting, slightly darker banding, a beautiful

MURICIDAE
897
Murex adunca (Sowerby, 1834) Japan 36mm f++ $35.00

w/op, wide angular fronding, very nice, just 1

RANELLIDAE
2217
Charonia powelli Cotton, 1957 W Australia 106mm f++ $28.00

w/op, knobby shoulder, very nice, just 2

STROMBIDAE
2223
Lambis adami (Bozzetti & Cossignani, 2003) Philippines 44mm f++ $35.00

w/op, super-cute, don't miss these

VOLUTIDAE
2224
Voluta gardneri Darragh, 1983 E Australia 61mm f++ $40.00

honey background with pale cream tenting & violet-brown interrupted banding, a

lovely live-taken specimen
2227
Voluta nivosa Lamarck, 1804 W Australia 86mm f++ $20.00

LARGE with beautiful dark pattern
2145
Voluta roadnightae (McCoy, 1881) Australia 141+mm f++ $95.00

huge protoconch, lovely copper-brown zig-zag pattern, don't miss this

 

New Additions June 25, 2010


CANCELLARIIDAE
352
Trigonostoma elegantulum (M. Smith, 1947) W Panama 13mm gem $25.00

exquisite turreted shape, a real beauty

CYPRAEIDAE
2197
Cypraea gaskoini Reeve, 1846 Hawaii 11mm gem $25.00

dwarf specimen, really tiny!

EPITONIIDAE
1
Amaea mitchelli (Dall, 1889) Colombia 41mm f++ $35.00

gorgeous large specimen, don't miss this

MARGINELLIDAE
2221
Marginella mirabilis (H. Adams, 1869) Somalia 28mm f++ $35.00

gorgeous color & pattern, just 1
2220
Marginella obtusa (Sowerby, 1846) Somalia 19mm gem $20.00

live-taken gem, a beauty

VOLUTIDAE
938
Voluta ferussacii (Donovan, 1824) Argentina 123mm f+ $125.00

live-taken, rare, large, very nice for this species
2218
Voluta polypleura retemirabilis (Petuch, 1981) Colombia 60mm f++ $75.00

choice with lovely pattern, San Andres form

 

New Additions May 31, 2010


BIVALVES - MISCELLANEOUS
292
Brechites attrahens (Lightfoot, 1786) W Australia 195mm f++ $45.00

very large with long tubes & varied attachments

BUCCINIDAE
2215
Aulacofusus insulapratensis Okutani & Lan, 1994 Japan 42mm f+ $12.00

deep water, uncommon from Japan, just 1

CONIDAE
2212
Conus baiano Coltro, 2004 Brasil 24mm f+ $35.00

red-orange with central creamy "rope" banding

CYPRAEIDAE
890
Cypraea armeniaca Verco, 1912 S Australia 98mm f+++ $125.00

BARGAIN PRICE, gorgeous peach/brown specimen, anyone else's gem, don't miss

out on this large beauty
2213
Cypraea oweni vasta Schilder & Schilder, 1938 Madagascar 19mm f++ $22.00

large with great pattern, heavily calloused
746
Cypraea semiplota Mighels, 1845 Hawaii 14mm gem $35.00

hard to get now, just 1excellent specimen
2216
Cypraea sulcidentata Gray, 1824 Hawaii 28mm f++ $18.00

cute dwarf specimen, very nice

MURICIDAE
2196
Murex pele (Pilsbry, 1921) Hawaii 44mm f++ $50.00

w/op, gorgeous, cream with pink-orange spire

VOLUTIDAE
767
Voluta cymbiola (Gmelin, 1791) Indonesia 65mm f++ $70.00

spiny shoulder, nicely spotted, very attractive

New Additions March 18, 2010


CYPRAEIDAE
2210
Cypraea caurica Linne, 1758 N Caledonia 46mm gem $125.00

SUPER ROSTRATE & NIGER, dark heavy specimen from the "old days" (1971),

ex G&B Cook collection
2211
Cypraea tessellata Swainson, 1822 Hawaii 26mm f+++ $75.00

DWARF, fully mature & beautifully spotted

HARPIDAE
440
Morum watanabei Kosuge, 1981 Japan 28mm+ gem $15.00

live-taken spiny beauties, excellent, just a few