Sea Snail Sea shell - S-596 CHICOREUS RAMOSUS

Beautiful, very large shell Chicoreus ramosus — popular name ramure murex or branched murex — is a species of predatory marine snail, a mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails. C. ramosus has a large, solid, very durable and heavy shell. It has a relatively globose outline, a short spire, a slightly inflated body whorl, and a moderately long siphonal canal. One of the most striking adornments are the eye-catching, leaf-like, curved, hollow digits. It also presents three axial folds (ribs) on the whorls, with two elongated nodes between them. Externally the shell is colored from white to light brown, with a white aperture, usually pink toward the inner edge, the outer lip and the columella. Dimensions — 165/195/240 mm. I highly recommend it to collectors and interior decorators.