What the heck are these??
Av. 25mm, apparently calcareus.
Perhaps same data as Scaphander lignaria
interior slightly glossy.
Contact Nancy Smith if you have a clue!!
Contact Nancy Smith if you have a clue!!
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VERY fragile and light shell. Universal gold-tan patterning (streaking/netting) over darker banding layer beneath over entire dorsum and base; white fossula (?) exposed; light but vibrant purple interior. Major suture line mending 6 mm from labral lip on dorsal edge. Protoconch markedly protuberant. On base, labral lip has not turned under at all and has no evidence of teeth whatsoever. Columella has no teeth either; fossula (?) twisting outwardly and still forming. Wide open aperature in early bulla formation.
Cypraea mauritanea Linne,1758
Geographical:
Bolinao, Ligayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines; under rocks and rubble, shallow water, on reef at low tide
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Nancy Smith
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