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Jewelry shells braceletsJewelry shells bracelets Mr. Alex Sehelechoff of Brisbane is the lucky owner of a curious cowry which at first I thought was a new species, as it seems to unite characters of Erronea caurica Linnaeus with those of Blasicrura pallidula rhinoceros Souverbie. It was collected live in Sharks Bay, Western Australia, by prawn trawlers, probably in from 12 to 24 fathoms. The figured shell is 22.8 mm long (breadth = 54%) with 15 labial and 17 columellar teeth. The dorsal color (freckled with brown, with a darker central blotch), the four large terminal spots, the pale yellowish flesh colored margins, and the coarse labial teeth of the same color crossing the outer lip, are like other caurica from Western Australia. On the other hand the projecting callosity which adorns the anterior extremity above the outlet, the sparsely spotted margins (especially the minute spots on the columellar margin), the extremely narrow aperture, and the numerous fine transverse columellar teeth along the edge of the inner lip (which is almost white in its central part), recall rhinoceros. The fossula is unlike caurica being rather deep though narrow, ribbed, with strong inner denticles becoming thickened along the inner border in a hammer-like way. This is continued as a well defined columellar sulcus ribbed and denticulate within, as far as the posterior outlet. Jewelry shells braceletsJewelry shells bracelets Ed deVaul found a Conus spiceri and two Harpa amouretta off Makua at 80' and Al Kekoa has brought up six more C. tessellata from 60-70 feet in Moanalua Bay over four weekends. Jewelry shells bracelets jewelry shells bracelets,shell philippine sea shell,ornamental fantaisie,natural handcrafted,jewelry fashion,shells iota,fashion blacktab,philippines products chain choker,shells bigiotteria,jewelry shells bracelets
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