Turbo cidaris Gmelin 1791 Gorgeous Superb Ornamented! Gem W/O H 35 W 41,8 mm. Very beautiful. Dark brown and blackish color with white, cream, gray pattern. Irisans bluish, white base, aperture and brown lip, amazing nodulose white operculum. Dived at 10-15 m. under rocks. Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha), East Cape Province, South Africa 1980

Cypraea lynx (Linne 1758) Gorgeous Gerontic Heavy! Gem 38 mm. Very beautiful and heavy. Cream/white color background with black large spots and blue, grayish small spots and marks. Callosus white color margins and base with black, gray and brown spots, red among white teeth. Self collected under stone and dead coral at shallow water. Bunaken Isl. Manado, North Sulawesi May 1998

Lunella torquata whitleyi (Iredale 1949) Gorgeous Uncommon! F+++/Gem W/O H 32 W 43,5 mm. Very beautiful. White, cream color with blackish, brown bands, amazing sculptures with frilly ribs, knobby shoulder with canal. White aperture and knobby lip. Has a chip. Taken on reef at low tide. Margaret River, Western Australia 1966

Spondylus americanus Hermann 1781 Gorgeous Superb Long spines! F+++ 120 mm. Including the spines. Body size 75 mm. Very beautiful. Upper and lower valve white color with pale orange umbo, attractive almost perfect very long spines and rays of small sharp body spines in upper and lower valve. Has small worm drills on lower valve and chipped some small body spines doesn't detract from it's overall beauty. From my personal collection. Dived at 10-20 m. Palm Beach, Florida 1974

Cypraea cinerea Gmelin 1791 Gorgeous! Gem 27,2 mm. Very beautiful. Cream and pale beige color soft bands with few dots. Cream/white color base, aperture and margins with black densely dots over the terminals. Dived at 5 m. under coral rubble. San Bernardo Isl. off Cartagena, Colombia 1990

Xymene plebeius (F. W. Hutton 1873) Outstanding Superb! Gem 11 mm. Very beautiful. Cream color with brown bands and attractive granulose large cords. Body color ribbed aperture and lip with fine teeth. Taken on mussels beds at low tide. Whitianga, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand 1982

Pleurodonte tridentina (Ferussac In Pfeiffer 1842) Gorgeous! F+++/Gem H 13 W 25 mm. Very beautiful and very rare. Yellowish/beige colors with light brown spiral lines and cream soft side band. Amazing cream, beige aperture and bluish lip with strong teeth. Taken on leaf liter. St. Mary Parish, Jamaica 2013

Murex Poropteron graagae (Coen 1947) Gorgeous Superb! Gem 15,9 mm. Very beautiful and uncommon. Beige color with attractive perfect curved spiny and granulose varices. Cream aperture and lip with teeth. Taken under rocks at low tide. Coffee Bay, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa 1970

Conus dalli Stearns 1873 Gorgeous Dark! F+++/Gem 51,3 mm. Very beautiful. Orange color marks with blackish axial streaks, attractive beige bands, white with black and brown over line pattern. Bluish/white aperture and lip with brown marks and fine teeth. Has a chip on the upper lip. Taken in sand at low tide. Las Perlas Archipelago, West Panama 1978

Murex Chicoreus territus (Reeve 1845) Gorgeous Huge! F++/F+++ W/O 60,9 mm. Very beautiful. Cream and white color with soft beige marks, attractive knobby and nodulose cords, perfect white spines. White mature ribbed aperture and lip with teeth. Has few very small damage holes and chipped protoconch. Taken on sand at low tide. Mackay, Qld. Australia 1980

Conus ericmonnieri (Petuch & R. F. Myers 2014) Gorgeous Unusual Superb! F+++/Gem 38,7 mm. Very beautiful and glossy. Yellowish/orange and white color with attractive brown, beige spiral lines and dots. White aperture and lip with fine teeth. Trawled at 30-40 m. Off Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil 1999

Conus marmoreus suffusus Sowerby 1870 Gorgeous Unusual! F+++/Gem 43,7 mm. Very beautiful. Cream/white color with pale yellow soft bands, slightly cords and shoulder knobs. Cream/white, yellow/orange aperture and lip with fine teeth. Has few micro defects. Taken on sand with grass at 1-2 m. Poe Beach, Borail, New Caledonia 1992

Agaronia gibbosa (Born 1778) Gorgeous Dark! F+++/Gem 46,1 mm. Very beautiful and heavy. Tones of blue, pale yellowish, grayish and cream color pattern with brown and blackish marked band on low body. Bluish, white base, aperture and brown lip. Has a chip on the upper lip. Trawled at 20-40 m. Kanyakumari, Southern India 2011

Conus striatus Linne 1758 Gorgeous Large! F+++/Gem 101,7 mm. Very beautiful. Black, brown, blue and white color attractive pattern and fine spiral lines. White aperture and lip. Has few micro defects. Self collected in sand under stone and dead coral at shallow water. Alona Kew, Panglao Isl. Bohol 2005

Chondrothyra tosta (Torre & Bartsch 1938) Gorgeous Rare! F+++ W/O 25,4 mm. Very beautiful. Pale yellow color with brown, black shoulder bands and over the lip, attractive fine nodulose cords. Body color aperture and cream/white nodulose large lip. Has shipped protoconch. Taken on limestone walls . Sitio del Infierno, Vinales, Pinar del Rio, Cuba 2023