MURICIDAE / Vitularia salebrosa
 

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Vitularia salebrosa  (King, 1832)

Collected while diving between 2 to 3 meters deep
attached on in mud buried Pinna shell near mangroves;
Laguna Tepalcates, near Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico;
March 2018

ID 10313: 63.9 mm, w/o, F+++

Beautiful & unusually brown granulated specimen,
large size, the thin lip is precise developed with the Pinna shell

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