Sea Snail Sea shell - S-309 STROMBUS GOLIATH

A treat for collectors. A beautiful, very large shell, rarely available for sale — Strombus goliath-Titanostrombus goliath, formerly known as Lobatus goliath, the common name of the Goliath conch, is a species of a very large edible marine snail, a sea snail from the family Strombidae. The Goliath shell has a very large, heavy, and solid shell, with a very noticeable, broad, expanded, and thickened outer lip. The stroboidal notch is rather inconspicuous in adults, but it can be identified as a secondary anterior notch on the right side of the siphonal canal in a non-sinistral shell, assuming it is viewed ventrally, with the anterior end directed downward. Unlike the similarly sized Queen conch, Aliger gigas, the aperture of the Goliath shell is brown, not pink. T. goliath also has a shorter spire and darker spines compared with the Queen conch, and the outer varix (lip) often extends well beyond the length of the spire in shells of adult specimens. Dimensions: 125/215/295 mm. I highly recommend it to collectors and interior decorators."