Muricidae

Murex Siratus perelegans (Vokes 1965) Gorgeous Superb! F+++/Gem W/O 60 mm. Very beautiful, hard to get now. White and cream color with attractive knobs, brown and beige cords, long almost perfect siphon. White mature ribbed aperture and lip with teeth. The lower side of the canal is chipped. Taken by fish traps in 200-250 m. Off Point-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe 2009

Murex Chicoreus cervicornis (Lamarck 1822) Gorgeous! F+++/Gem 35,1 mm. Small but very beautiful. Cream, pale yellow and beige color with attractive perfect long curved spines. White mature aperture and lip. The side of the canal is chipped. Collected by prawn fisherman. Torres Straits, Qld. Australia 1966

Murex Vokesimurex chrysostoma (Gray in Sowerby 1834) Gorgeous Exceptional! F+++/Gem W/O 59,3 mm. Very beautiful. Beige, cream, white and grayish color with attractive gray knobs and fine nodulose cords. Amazing white aperture with yellow ribs, orange lips with teeth. Has few micro defects and chips on the side of the canal. Taken in traps with crab bait in mangrove area. La Isleta, South East Coast of Margarita Isl. Venezuela 2011

Murex Chicoreus florifer (Reeve 1846) Gorgeous! F+++/Gem W/O 50,2 mm. Very beautiful. White, orange, beige and brown color with attractive knobby and fine nodulose cords, perfect frilly and nodulose blackish, cream spines. White mature slightly ribbed aperture and lip with teeth. The canal and the protoconch are slightly chipped  Taken on hart pan bottom. Behind Governor's Harbor Airport, Eleuthera, Bahamas 1998