Murex Chicoreus mergus (E. Vokes 1974) Gorgeous Large! F++ W/O 57,3 mm. Very beautiful rare in panama. Cream and white color with attractive brown, beige nodulose cords and marks, almost perfect brown spines. White mature aperture and lip with teeth. Has worm holes and a chipped spine on the central varices, a drill mark last whorl, two chips on the side of the canal doesn't detract from it's overall beauty. Dredged at 80 feet. Bahia de Portobelo, Colon, East Panama 1987

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

Argonauta hians Lightfoot 1786 Gorgeous Superb! Gem 60 mm. Very beautiful. Cream and white color, attractive sculpture with large cords and black dorsal knobs. Body color aperture and lip. Trawled. Off South West Taiwan 1970

Nassarius globosus Quoy & Gaimard 1833 Gorgeous Thick! Gem 13,3 mm. Very beautiful. White color with tones of brown dorsal blotch, attractive sculpture with granulose cords and very tick full mature white base. White, brown ribbed aperture and thick lip. Dried animal inside. Self collected on sand at shallow water. Phi-Phi Isl. South of Phuket, Thailand December 1999

Nassarius pullus (Linne 1758) Gorgeous Blue Humped! Gem 20,5 mm. Very beautiful humped. Blue body and tones of brown color whorls with pale yellowish soft band, attractive sculpture with cream ribs and nodulose cords on low body. Very tick full mature yellowish/cream base with dark gray basal blotch. Cream, pale yellow, blackish ribbed aperture and thick lip. Self collected on sea grass at shallow water. On the front of Diving Resort, Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia 1998

Malea pomum (Linne 1758) Outstanding Strange Shape! F+++/Gem 50 mm. Very beautiful and glossy, strange shape! looks so different that deserves a subspecies. Cream/white color with soft pale yellow marks and large cords. White, yellow base, aperture and thick lip with strong teeth. Has few micro defect. Taken in coral sand in shallow water. Olhuveli Isl. Maldives 1984

Fusitriton oregonensis (Redfield 1846) Gorgeous Large! F+++/Gem W/O 108,5 mm. White color with attractive knobby and nodulose cords. Bluish/white ribbed aperture and lip. Has shipped protoconch and few micro defects. Trawled at 100-120 m. Off Graham Isl. British Columbia, Canada 1967

Canarium ochroglottis (Abbott 1960) Gorgeous Yellowish/orange! F+++/Gem 27 mm. Very beautiful glossy special color, hard to get from this area. Yellowish/orange color with attractive knobby shoulder, corded over the lip and low body. White and pale yellow ribbed aperture and thick lip with fine teeth. Has slightly chipped protoconch. Somalia 2012

Astralium rotularia (Lamarck 1822) Gorgeous Frilly Large! F+++/Gem W/O H 31 W 40,9 mm. including lamellas Very beautiful. Cream/white color with attractive almost perfect large shoulder lamellas. Cream /white base with lamellate cords. Iridescent white base, aperture and lip, black operculum. Taken on rocks at low tide. Broome, North West Western Australia 1988

Glyphostoma otohimeae Kosuge 1981 Gorgeous Large Superb! Gem 28,5 mm. Very beautiful. White and cream color with brown and beige marks, attractive knobby ribs. Amazing white and grayish knobby aperture and lip with fine teeth. Balicasag Isl. Bohol 2008

Amalda albocallosa (Lischke 1868) Gorgeous Large! F+++/Gem 63,7 mm. Very beautiful, hard to get. Tones of orange, cream, white and beige color. White, pale beige color callus, aperture and lip. Has few micro defects. Trawled. Mikawa, Aichi, Japan 1970

Ancillista velesiana Iredale 1936 Outstanding! Large! F+++/Gem 83 mm. Very beautiful. Yellowish/cream, white, brown and beige color. Pale yellowish/cream aperture and thin lip. Trawled. Off Tin Can Bay, South Qld. Australia 1980