Amoria macandrevi – 50 mm – Perfect GEM quality (Barrow Island, Australia) Skeleton - Amoria macandrevi - 0 mm - 0 mm - 50 mm- Non-CITES species - (1)
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Specimen Amoria macandrevi – 50 mm, GEM quality, from Barrow Island, Western Australia, 1988, authentic original.
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Product Description & Scientific Data
Scientific name: Amoria macandrevi (Sowerby III, 1887) – often listed as Amoria macandrewi.
Common name: Macandrews Volute Snail (Eng. Macandrew's Volute).
Quality grade: GEM (absolutely flawless best condition; high-gloss, porcelain-like enamel on the shell, sharply defined whorl ornamentation and a completely undamaged, graceful aperture lip with no chips whatsoever).
Size: 50 mm (5.0 cm). A perfectly proportioned, fully developed standard specimen for this species.
Morphology: The shell impresses with its elegant, spindle-shaped symmetry. The coloration features a highly attractive, fine network of tent-like brown lines and axial zigzag stripes on a cream-white to slightly flesh-colored background.
Family: Volutidae (Volutes).
Origin & Habitat
Geographic origin: Barrow Island, Pilbara coast, Western Australia (Northwest Shelf).
Habitat: A strictly marine, predatory gastropod species. It is endemic to the waters of Western Australia and is collected mainly at extreme low tides on expansive, shallow sand banks or in the shallow substrate of tidal zones.
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SKU - Oberdiek - Amoria macandrevi100
TAGS: crab mollusk snails maritime nautical Nautilus sea water collection
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We are specialists in the sale of mussels and snails from collection solutions. We get most of these from Germany.
We offer very special pieces for sale here that we do not offer on our website.
Translated by Google TranslateProduct Description & Scientific Data
Scientific name: Amoria macandrevi (Sowerby III, 1887) – often listed as Amoria macandrewi.
Common name: Macandrews Volute Snail (Eng. Macandrew's Volute).
Quality grade: GEM (absolutely flawless best condition; high-gloss, porcelain-like enamel on the shell, sharply defined whorl ornamentation and a completely undamaged, graceful aperture lip with no chips whatsoever).
Size: 50 mm (5.0 cm). A perfectly proportioned, fully developed standard specimen for this species.
Morphology: The shell impresses with its elegant, spindle-shaped symmetry. The coloration features a highly attractive, fine network of tent-like brown lines and axial zigzag stripes on a cream-white to slightly flesh-colored background.
Family: Volutidae (Volutes).
Origin & Habitat
Geographic origin: Barrow Island, Pilbara coast, Western Australia (Northwest Shelf).
Habitat: A strictly marine, predatory gastropod species. It is endemic to the waters of Western Australia and is collected mainly at extreme low tides on expansive, shallow sand banks or in the shallow substrate of tidal zones.
Sale and shipping via DHL only within the EU
SKU - Oberdiek - Amoria macandrevi100
TAGS: crab mollusk snails maritime nautical Nautilus sea water collection
Seller's Story
We are specialists in the sale of mussels and snails from collection solutions. We get most of these from Germany.
We offer very special pieces for sale here that we do not offer on our website.
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Era
After 2000
Specimen
Amoria macandrevi – 50 mm – Perfect GEM quality (Barrow Island, Australia)
Scientific name
Amoria macandrevi
Number of objects
1
Country of origin
Australia
CITES relevancy
Non-CITES species
Condition
Good condition
Year
1988
Weight
0 g
Depth
50 mm
Height
0 mm
Width
0 mm
Authenticity
Original/official
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