Voluta Amoria grayi Ludbrook 1953 Outstanding! F+++ 83,3 mm. Very beautiful, hard to get nowadays. Cream and pale grayish color with orange shoulder and top. Cream/white, orange aperture and perfect lip. Has a very small drill hole and few micro defects. Trawled at 40-60 m. Off Broome, Kimberley, West Australia 1980

Voluta Neptuneopsis gilchristi (Sowerby III 1898) Gorgeous Long Protoconch! F++ 157 mm. Very beautiful. Yellowish/cream color. White color aperture and lip. Has many small growth defects and few slightly growth lines, a chip and few nicks doesn't detract from it's overall beauty. Trawled at 100 m. Agulhas Bank, Cape Province, South Africa 1970

Cypraea schilderorum Iredale 1939 Gorgeous Slender Thick! F+++/Gem 32,1 mm. Very beautiful. Tines of beige and cream/white color banded dorsum with brown ring. Callosus beige, cream/white margins and base. Has few micro defects. Dived under rocks. Ewa Beach, Oahu, Hawaii 1970

Ancilla lienardi (Bernardi 1821) Gorgeous Orange Superb! Gem 29,6 mm. Very beautiful. Bright orange body, yellowish/orange color banded spires and over the canal , white low body groove. White base, callus, aperture and lip with tooth.  Trawled at 25-40 m. Off Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil 2025

Calliostoma monile (Reeve 1863) Gorgeous Large! F+++ 23 mm. Very beautiful and glossy. Cream/white color with attractive deep violet, white shoulder and fine cords. Bluish iridescent color corded aperture and lip. Has a slightly growth mark and a drill mark on the spires. Taken at shallow water (natural habitat). Broome, North West Western Australia 1977

Pecten fumatus Reeve 1852 Gorgeous Large! F+++ 98 mm. Very beautiful. Upper valve rose, pale pinkish and white color with fine nodulose body and large ribs. Lower valve purple, pale pinkish, beige, brown, black, cream, white color attractive pattern. Has little chipped lip and ears. Trawled at 80-100 m. Off Port Lincoln, South Australia 1990

Xenophora senegalensis Fischer 1873 Gorgeous! F+++/Gem W/O W 32,8 mm. including the attachment. Very beautiful. Yellowish/cream color body with attractive nodulose sculpture, bivalves, piece of shells and stones attachments. Grayish/cream base with granulose cords. Bluish/white aperture and lip Trawled at 20-30 m. Yene, Senegal 2001

Stramonita canaliculata (Gray 1839) Gorgeous! F+++/Gem W/O 37 mm. Very beautiful. Tones of blue and white color with blackish, brown, gray marks, attractive knobby and nodulose cords. White, brown ribbed aperture and lip with teeth. Has a healed slightly growth mark on the side. Taken on rocks at low tide. Port St. Joe Bay, Gulf County, N.W. Florida 1989

Cypraea arabica immanis Schilder & Schilder 1939 Gorgeous! F+++/Gem 72,3 mm. Very beautiful. Bluish, cream color background with attractive extended tip, dark brown pattern and gray marks. Callosus beige, cream color margins with blackish, brown, gray, beige spots. Base grayish and prune color with blackish spots, brown teeth. Has few micro defects. From my personal collection. Vipingo North Cost, Kenya 1976

Murex Homalocantha melanamathos (Gmelin 1791) Gorgeous! Gem 30 mm. Very beautiful. White body color and beige early whorls with attractive nodulose cords and perfect black spiny varices. White mature ribbed aperture and lip with teeth. Taken on rocks in shallow water. Off Point Pongara, Gabon 1980

Cypraea tigris (Linne 1758) Gorgeous Elongate Black Blotch! Gem 66,8 mm. Very beautiful. White and sky/blue color background with black, brown densely spots, black blotch and yellow, orange mantle line. White base and margins with black and blue spots. Self collected among corals and under dead corals at shallow water. Arena Isl. Barangay, Palawan April 1999

Lataxiena blosvillei (Deshayes 1832) Gorgeous Great Specimen! F+++/Gem 42,9 mm. Very beautiful. Tones of gray, blackish, bluish and cream color attractive sculpture with granulose cords and knobby shoulder. Gray, cream mature ribbed aperture and lip with teeth. Has a growth defect over the siphon. Taken on rocks in very muddy sand at low tide. Keppel Bay, Qld. Australia 1973

Conus vimineus Reeve 1849 Outstanding! F+++/Gem 34,1 mm. Very beautiful. Cream color with pale beige soft marks and attractive fine nodulose cords. White, cream aperture and lip with teeth. Has slightly chipped protoconch. Negros Isl. Philippines 2008

Murex Homalocantha secunda (Lamarck 1822) Gorgeous Superb! Gem W/O 34,4 mm. Very beautiful. Cream color with attractive black perfect spiny varices and lamellate cords. White mature aperture and lip with teeth. Taken intertidally. Dampier Salt, North Western Australia 1960

Conus textile Gorgeous Corded! F+++/Gem 60,2 mm. Very beautiful unusual corded species. Yellowish/orange color with black axial streaks marks, attractive white with black, brown over line pattern and fine cords. White aperture and lip with black lines and fine teeth. Self collected in sand under stone and dead coral at shallow water. Alona Kew, Panglao Isl. Bohol 2005

Hesperisternia karinae (Nowell-Usticke 1959) Gorgeous Superb! Gem W/O 19,8 mm. Very beautiful. Beige, brown, cream and yellowish color with white band attractive fine nodulose body cords and knobby ribs. White ribbed aperture and lip with beige dots and teeth. Taken by lobster traps at 60-70 m. Off Guarapari, Espirito Santo, Brazil 1990

Conus episcopatus daMotta 1982 Outstanding Brown White! F+++ 72,5 mm. Very beautiful. Brown color with attractive white pattern and dots. White aperture and lip with brown lines and fine teeth. Has slightly growth lines and micro defects. Self collected in sand under stone and dead coral at shallow water. Alona Kew, Panglao Isl. Bohol 2005

Cantharus mirabelmaxcencei Cossignani 2017 Gorgeous! F+++/Gem 38,6 mm. Accepted from WoRMS as Pollia mirabelmaxcencei T. Cossignani, 2017 Very beautiful. Yellow and cream color with attractive dark brown and black cords, slightly knobby body. White ribbed mature aperture and yellow thick lip with teeth. Has a slightly growth mark on the spires. Self collected on rocks at shallow water. Bunaken Isl. Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia 1998