CYPRAEIDAE / Mauritia eglantina
 


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Mauritia eglantina grieseofformis (f)  (Duclos,1833)
also M. eglantina griseoviridis (f)


Collected by local fishermen between 10 to 20 meters
depth; Off Negros, Philippines; March 2010

ID 7741: 67 mm, F++

Nice overglaze specimen,  minor flaws in the dorsum;
Is rarely offered as form grieseofformis, most as overglaze eglantina
SOLD