No. 92276295
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Stunning large sea shell set of a Melo Amphora shell and Branched Murex on custom stands - Sea shell - Melo Amphora and Chicoreus ramosus (No Reserve Price)
No. 92276295
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Stunning large sea shell set of a Melo Amphora shell and Branched Murex on custom stands - Sea shell - Melo Amphora and Chicoreus ramosus (No Reserve Price)
Beautiful set of 2 large sea shells consisting a Melo amphora and Branched Murex Shell on custom stands.
Melo amphora, common name the Diadem volute, is a very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae.
This large shell has a bulbous or nearly oval outline. Its columella has three easily distinguishable oblique folds. The aperture is wide and near as long as the shell itself, and there is no operculum. It has a very large, inflated and posteriorly expanded body whorl. One of its most striking characteristics is the shoulder with prominent and curved hollow spines. These spines tend to become obsolete in later stages of growth. The spire is usually very short.
The color of the Melo amphora shell is said to be highly variable. It is commonly mainly coloured brown, white, or pale orange. It usually presents spiral darker brown banding. The interior is glazed, and is commonly coloured cream or pinky orange.
This large sea snail is known to live in littoral and shallow sublittoral zones. It usually dwells in muddy bottoms at a maximum depth of nearly 10 m.
Chicoreus ramosus, common name the ramose murex or branched murex, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails.
One of its most striking ornamentations are the conspicuous, leaf-like, recurved hollow digitations. It also presents three spinose axial varices per whorl, with two elongated nodes between them. The shell is coloured white to light brown externally, with a white aperture, generally pink towards the inner edge, the outer lip and the columella.
Murex shells are often large, spiny, and have a distinctive shape. The aperture (the opening of the shell) is typically narrow.
A P P R O X I M A T E D I M E N S I O N S - including stand
Height 1: 42 cm Width 1: 15 cm Length 1: 10 cm
Height 2: 33 cm Width 2: 14 cm Length 2: 12 cm
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