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Name Description Locality Price
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....23868...(1)...Columbarium hystriculum Darragh, 1987...66mm. F+. Inexpensive but still very nice...Australia...$35 FIRM! (1 available)
....11004...(1)...Columbarium eastwoodae Kilburn, 1971....69, 72, 75mm. F++ w/operc. twisted sisters! bent tails... South Africa...$17 (1 available)
....11003...(1)...Columbarium eastwoodae Kilburn, 1971...60, 60mm. F++ w. operc. Nice and clean. South Africa $10 (1 available)
....28010...(1)...Columbarium spinicincta von Martens, 1881...63mm. F++. With a row of saw-toothed shoulder spines & long, perfect syphonal canal...Australia...$35 (1 available)
....23872...(1)...Columbarium spinicincta von Martens, 1897...57 to 61mm. F+. Nice saw-toothed peripheral keel & full protoconch...Australia...$33 (1 available)
....23873...(1)...Columbarium spiralis A. Adams, 1856...81mm. F: Dead. Nice example for dead taken, with full length canal...New Zealand...$11 (1 available)
....26486...(1)...Tudicula spirillus Linne, 1758....63mm. F+ w/o. Fully adult albino specimen...India...$35 (1 available)
....18338...(5)...Tudicla spirallis Linne, 1767...28 - 31mm. F high. Study set of little babies showing bulbose protoconch & early growth shape...India...$7 for the 5 of the (5 available)
Tudicula zanzibarica Abbot, is a very difficult species to obtain, especially the adult specimens, whose awesome, flared aperature develops quite late in the animal's life. They are extremely difficult to get in GEM condition, but most of the ones below are decent. Happy shopping!!
EXEPTIONAL SPECIMEN......34086...(1)...Tudicula zanzibarica Abbott, 1958....60 to 61mm. F+ high w/o. GIGANTONORMOUS specimens of this East African collector's item with complete, fully developed parietal shield, intact shoulder spines & flared, thickened lip. As nice as you will find for this almost-record size (does anyone know what the record actually is now?)...Tanzania...$222 and well worth it!! (1 available) (Box on shelf)
...34087...(3)...Tudicula zanzibarica Abbott, 1958....53 to 54mm. F+ high w/o. Superb, fully adult examples of this East African collector's item with complete lip, parietal shield & shoulder spines...Tanzania...SUPERSPECIAL!!..$65 FIRM (no discounts: this price is a bit silly....) (3 available) (Box on shelf)
....33602...pr...Tudicula zanzibarica (dorsum) Abbott, 1958 (ventrum)...52 & 56.2mm F+ nicely . Good pair (one quite large!) of this "Classic rarity" (ok, so not that "classic", but still hard to come by!!): one with peachy aperature and creamy spines, the other with white aperature and dark spines...Zanzibar ... $200/pair (1 pair available) (Box on shelf)
....16500D...(2)...Tudicula zanzibarica Abbott, 1958 ..43, 45mm F+ high . Advanced juvies with nice long spines...Zanzibar ... $50 (2 available) (Box on shelf)
....16500C...(1)...Tudicula zanzibarica (dorsum) Abbott, 1958 (ventrum)...48mm F+ solid . Sub-adult, with parietal shield partly developed...Zanzibar ... $100 (1 available) (Box on shelf)
...34402...(1)...Turbinella pyrum Linne, 1758....111mm. F+ w/perio. FREAK! Spectacular example with odd, umbilicate base & a curved & twisted siphonal canal. If sinistral specimens of this species are held sacred in India then this one should be worthy of a sainthood...India...$150 (1 available)
...34297...(1)....Turbinella angulata Lightfoot, 1786....143mm. F+. Good specimen with fully developed lip...Bahamas...$10 (1 available)
...34298...(1)....Turbinella angulata Lightfoot, 1786....114mm. F+. Sub-adult with thin lip for a bargain price...Bahamas...$5 (1 available)
...34287...(2)...Vasum capitellum Linne, 1758....41 to 43mm. F+. Mid-sized examples with strong shoulder knobs...Grenada...$7 (2 available)
...26489...(set)...Vasum capitellum Linne, 1758....26, 36 & 50mm. F+ (largest w/o.) Good short growth series...Curacao...$20/set (1 set available)
....26158...(1)...Vasum ceramicum Linne, 1758....50mm. F+ w/o. High spired, with brown axial markings...Zanzibar...$6 (1 available)
....27958...(2)...Vasum cassiformis Kiener, 1841....65 to 70mm. F++ w/o. With brown stained, well developed lip & parietal shield...Brazil...$22 (2 available)
...34233...(1)....Vasum muricatum Born, 1778....96mm. F+ w/o. Massive "au naturel" example with such heavy coraline algae concretions that it is camoflaged as a lump of coral...Mexico...$15 (1 available)Oversize
...34234...(1)....Vasum muricatum Born, 1778....82mm. F++. Well cleaned, good sized, heavy specimen with lip intact...$14 (1 available)
...34289...(1)....Vasum turbinellum Linne, 1758....30mm. F+. Neat junior example to start or fill in a growth series, from an unusual locality...Okinawa...$3 (1 available)
...24152...(1)...Vasum turbinellum Linne, 1758...64mm. F+. Excellent lip & big, blunt shoulder spines...Philippines...$3 (1 available)
...32331...(1)...Vasum turbinellum Linne, 1758....47mm. F++. Typical turbinellum, with intact, black spotted lip & lots of thick, blunt spines...Philippines...$3 (1 available)
....12839...(set)...Vasum turbinellum Linne, 1758...40, 45, 55 & 65mm. F/F+ 4 piece growth series..Thailand...$9/set (1 set available)
....15170...(1)...Vasum turbinellum Linne, 1758...56mm. F+ spiney white with black bands..Thailand...$3 (1 available)
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