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Cypraea armeniaca Verco 1912 87mm F+ trawled
150 Meters Great Australian Bight, Australia. Ex Adrian Bishop Collection
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Cypraea Notocypraea comptonii Gray 1847 26mm
F++ by diver 20 Meters Kangaroo Island. South Australia Ex Adrian Bishop
collection.
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Cypraea cylindrica Born 1778 30mm F++
collected at low tide under coral slabs Stanage Bay. Queensland
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Cypraea cylindrica lenella Iredale 1939 31mm
F++/Gem Mackay, NE Australia on beach at low tide under rocks. Collected
2004 Ex Greg Lanterman
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Cypraea cylindrica lenella Iredale 1939 33mm
F++/Gem Mackay, NE Australia on beach at low tide under rocks. Collected
2004 Ex Greg Lanterman
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Cypraea hesitata howelli Iredale 1931 91.5mm
Gem Trawled - extreme west of NSW, Gabo Island. Australia EFM Collection
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Cypraea Notocypraea pulicaria Reeve 1846
18.5mm F++/Gem Yallingup, Western Australia on intertidal reef. Ex
Adrian Bishop collection.
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Cypraea thersites Gaskoin 1849 76.8mm F++/Gem
by diver 5 to 8 Meters on sponges Stansbury, South Australia. Ex Adrian
Bishop collection.
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Conus achatinus Gmelin 1791 43mm F+ Western
Australia at low tide under coral slab.
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Conus anemone Lamarck 1810 47mm collected at
low tide under rock slabs Port Lincoln, South Australia
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Conus klemae Cotton 1953 34mm F collected at
low tide on reef. Yallingup, Western Australia
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Conus nielsenae reductaspiralis Walls 1979
37mm F+ Dampier, Western Australia at low tide under coral slab.
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Conus papilliferus Sowerby 1834 27mm F+ Woody
Head, New South Wales at low tide under rocks.
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Conus peronianus Iredale 1931 65mm F++ Port
Lincoln South Australia by diver under limestone slabs at 19 - 21 Meters --
beautiful pink specimen --
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Voluta Amoria damoni Gray 1864 96mm F++/Gem
Australia 1965 EFM Collection
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Voluta Amoria damoni Gray 1864 100mm F++/Gem
Australia 1965 EFM Collection
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Voluta Amoria exoptanda Reeve 1849 105.8mm
F+++/Gem collected by diver in 8 Meters off Boiling Reef Port Lincoln, South
Australia in August 1999. Ex George Sangiouloglou
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Voluta Amoria molleri Iredale 1936 76mm F++
Cape Morten, Queensland, Australia
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Voluta Amoria molleri Iredale 1936 80mm F++
trawled 80 - 100 Meters off Cape Morten, Queensland, Australia
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Voluta Amoria molleri Iredale 1936 53mm F++
trawled at 260 to 330 feet Capricorn Channel Queensland, Australia
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Voluta Cymbiola aulica Sowerby 1825 120mm Gem
Queensland, Australia Rare. EFM Collection
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Voluta Cymbiola flavicans Gmelin 1791 74mm F+
at low tide on mud Croker Island. Torres Strait, Australia. Knobby Form
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Voluta Cymbiola flavicans Gmelin 1791 73mm
F+ at low tide on mud. Darwin, Northern Territories, Australia Smooth Form
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Voluta Cymbiola nivosa oblita Smith 1909 85mm
F++/Gem Australia 1966 EFM Collection
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Voluta Cymbiola nivosa oblita Smith 1909 79mm
F++/Gem Australia 1966 EFM Collection
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Voluta Cymbiola rutila Broderip 1826 87mm Gem
Queensland, Australia 1964 EFM collection
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Voluta Cymbiola rutila Broderip 1826 107mm
Gem Queensland, Australia 1964 EFM collection
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Voluta Cymbiolacca nielseni Mcmichael 1959
71mm F++ trawled off Bundaberg in 15 Fathoms. Queensland, Australia
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Voluta Cymbiolacca peristicta Mcmichael
1963 55mm F++ Swain Reef Queensland, Australia
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Voluta Cymbiolacca perplicata Hedley 1902 73mm F++ by SCUBA
diver at 35 Feet on sand Diamond Islet. Coral sea. Collected August 1999
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Voluta Cymbiolacca pulchra cracenta Mcmichael 1963 55mm
F++ trawled off Bowden Reef Queensland, Australia
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Voluta Cymbiolacca pulchra houarti Poppe 1985
53mm F++ Swain Reefs trawled in 100+ Fathoms between Halfmoon Reef &
Sweetlip Reef December 1993
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Voluta Cymbiolacca pulchra subelongata Limpus
& Bali 2001 80mm F++ trawled at 100 Meters off Lady Musgrave Island.
Queensland, Australia
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Voluta Cymbiolacca thatcheri McCoy 1868
81.2mm F++/Gem collected Chesterfield Island between Queensland and New
Calodonia. Dredged in Shallow water 20 - 50 Meters in 1980. Ex Sistiana
Seashells Classic, heavy white with pink-red
pattern, high spire.
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Voluta Cymbiolista hunteri Iredale 1931 111mm
F collected by trawlers along north coast of New South Wales, Australia
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Voluta Cymbiolista hunteri Iredale 1931 136mm
F++/Gem Queensland, Australia live collected 70 Fathoms off Cape Moreton.
Deepwater Red color form. EFM Collection
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Voluta Cymbiolista hunteri Iredale 1931 125mm
F+ Queensland, Australia live collected 70 Fathoms off Cape Moreton.
Deepwater Red color form. 1965 EFM Collection
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Voluta Ericusa papillosa Swainson 1822 97mm
Gem Edithburg, South Australia live collected in 10 Fathoms by divers. Fully
adult specimen. Rare Dwarf form. Usually trawled only in much deeper water
around Victoria. From Lance Moore Marine Specimens PTY. LTD 27A George
street. Sydney, Australia. Dec 1977 EFM Collection.
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Voluta Ericusa papillosa kenyoniana Braz.
1898 128mm F++/Gem South Australia trawled 90 Fathoms Great Australian Bight
off Adelaide. Large. 1965. EFM Collection
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Voluta Livonia roadnightae McCoy 1881 214mm
F+ crabbed Great Australian Bight trawled 150 Meters -- Huge Specimen -- Ex
Adrian Bishop Collection
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Voluta Livonia roadnightae McCoy 1881 214mm
F+ crabbed Great Australian Bight trawled 150 Meters -- Huge Specimen -- Ex
Adrian Bishop Collection
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Voluta Notovoluta gardneri Darragh 1983 83mm
F+ Australia. S.E. Swain Reefs off Hixson Cay. Trawled in 200 to 210 Meters.
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Voluta Volutoconus bednalli Brazier 1879 98mm
F++/Gem Northern Territory, Australia trawled 30 Fathoms Arafura Sea Port
Darwin. High Spired slender variety. Rare. Collected Sept. 1965. EFM
Collection.
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Voluta Volutoconus bednalli Brazier 1879 99mm
F++/Gem Queensland, Australia live collected trawled 20 Fathoms Thursday
Island Torres Straits. Fat, Chunky Variety. Rare collected Dec. 1967. EFM
collection
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Voluta Provocator mirabilis Finley 1926 83mm
F+ New Zealand. Trawled at 300 to 400 Meters off Auckland Island south of
New Zealand. Ex Bob Lipe
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Murex Chicoreus akritos Radwin & d'Attillo
1976 50mm F+ Great Keppel Island. Queensland
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Murex Chicoreus banksii Sowerby 1841 87mm F++
with operculum. Western Australia, Cape Keroudren. 7 to 9 Meters. Collected
1987. Ex Guido Poppe
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Murex Chicoreus stainforthi Reeve 1843 57mm
F+ collected at low tide on sand. Broome, Western Australia
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Murex Haustellum tweedianus Macpherson 1962
71mm F+ with operculum trawled 40 Meters off North Web Is. Queensland,
Australia ex Malcolm Ford-Gladstone collection
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Murex Pterynotus bednali Brazier 1877 62mm
F++ Cape Levone North west Western Australia. On muddy rock ledges feeding
on oysters at extreme low tide. Rare
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Murex Pterynotus bednali Brazier 1877 62mm
F++ Cape Levone North west Western Australia. On muddy rock ledges feeding
on oysters at extreme low tide. Rare
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Austroharpa punctata Verco 1896 30mm dead -
"crabbed". Dead with hermit crab at night. 30 to 40 Meters off Cape LeGrande
east of Esperance, Western Australia. Ex Adrian Bishop Collection
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