Cypraea fimbriata marmorata Schroter 1804 Outstanding Exceptional Form! Gem 12,4 mm. Very beautiful. Cream color background with attractive brown, beige, pale bluish pattern and brown terminals Cream, white base and margins with blackish dots. Taken under rocks near reef. Piti Bay, Guam 1970

Placamen berrii (W. Wood 1828) Gorgeous! F+++ H 32,7 W 32,7 mm. Very beautiful. Tones of blue, cream and white color with attractive strong cords. Taken in sand. Shark Bay area, North Western Australia 1975

Tivela planulata (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I 1830) Gorgeous Yellow! F+++/Gem H 30 W 36 mm. Very beautiful and glossy, rare in Mexico. Yellow, beige and cream color attractive pattern. Taken on sand in very low tide. Mazatlan, Sinaloa, West Mexico 1980

Oliva tessellata Lamarck 1811 Gorgeous Superb! F+++/Gem 24 mm. Very beautiful. Cream and pale yellowish color background with attractive tones of beige marks White, blue, blackish base aperture and thick lip. Taken in coral sand. Langford Reef, Qld. Australia 1986

Cypraea leviathan Schilder & Schilder 1937 Gorgeous Heavy! F++/F+++ 57,3 mm. Very beautiful. Pale orange and grayish/cream color banded dorsum with cream/white axial lines. Callosus, pale grayish, cream base,  margins and dark lavender teeth. Has slightly irregularities, a healed small bite and few micro defects. Dived at 5-10 m. under rocks. Pearl Harbor Channel, Oahu, Hawaii 1980

Cypraea boivinii cuatoni Kosuge 1983 Outstanding Gorgeous Extra large! Gem 29,3 mm.  Very beautiful. Bluish/white and sky/blue color with bluish spots and  grayish mantle line. Callosus white nodulose margins and base. From my personal collection. Bantayan Isl. Cebu 1976

Clanculus floridus (R. A. Philippi 1850) Gorgeous Special NSW Form! Gem H 8 W 11,3 mm. Very beautiful. Yellowish color with brown marks, attractive nodulose cords and white top. White base with fine nodulose cords. Bluish/white iridescent corded aperture and lip with teeth. Taken under rocks at low tide . Narrabeen, NSW, Australia 1986

Cypraea cicercula dwarf Linne 1758 Outstanding Lilliput! Gem 13,4 mm. Very beautiful very hard to get from this area. Yellowish/cream color with attractive nodules and mantle line, pale orange terminals. Cream margin and base with pale yellowish teeth lines. Dived at coral reef. Ishigaki Isl. Southern Okinawa Prefecture, Japan 1990

Cypraea pulchra Gray 1824 Gorgeous Superb! Gem 40,2 mm. Very beautiful. Dorsum tones of grayish/beige and cream color soft bands and black terminal marks. White and cream color margins and base with brown teeth. Taken under rubble at 2-3 m. Muscat, Oman 1990

Voluta Cymbiola complexa frazerensis Bail & Limpus 1998 Gorgeous! F+++ 76,5 mm. Very beautiful and glossy. Cream/white and pale orange color with attractive pattern and bands, black spots slightly spiny shoulder. White, yellowish/cream  aperture and thin lip. Has a slightly growth mark on the base, undulations. micro defects and nicks. Trawled in 20-30 fathoms. Off Bundaberg, Qld. Australia 1980

Cypraea acicularis marcuscoltroi dwarf (Petuch 2015) Gorgeous Callosus Dark! Gem 15 mm. Very beautiful special dwarf population from offshore reef. Dark orange/beige color background with cream densely ocellata and beige spots. White base and callosus nodulose margins with black spots. Dived at 30-35 m. under dead corrals. 120 km. South East off Alcobaca, Bahia, Brazil 2023

Scaeochlamys squamea Dijkstra & Maestrati 2009 Gorgeous Colorful! Gem 38 mm. Not sure about ID. Very beautiful. Red, orange, blackish, cream and beige color attractive pattern, spiny and lamellate ribs. Dived at 15 m. under dead corals and rocks. Zamboanga, Mindanao Isl. Philippines 2000

Oliva sericea (Roding 1798) Gorgeous Superb! F+++/Gem 66,5 mm. Very beautiful and heavy. Cream, white color background with amazing black, gray, blue pattern. Cream,, white yellowish base, aperture and thick lip. Has irregularities over the lip. Taken in sand at low tide. Goodenough Isl. (Nidula Isl.), Papua New Guinea,  late XIX Century

Cypraea lynx dwarf (Linne 1758) Gorgeous Elongate Lilliput!Gem 23,8 mm. Very beautiful special color. Yellowish, cream color background with brown, beige, blue and blackish spots. White color margins and base with blackish, brown and grayish spots, pale orange aperture with white teeth. Self collected under stone and dead coral at shallow water. Siladen Isl. Manado, North Sulawesi May 1998

Glycymeris glycymeris (Linne 1758) Gorgeous! F+++/Gem H 45 W 46,5 mm. Very beautiful. Cream/white color with attractive tones of brown, beige pattern and fine cords. Trawled at 20-30 m. Erquis Harbour, Bretagne, France 2002

Monoplex thersites (Reeve 1844) Gorgeous Rare! F+++ W/O 44,8 mm. Very beautiful. Beige, white, cream and yellowish color with attractive knobby and nodulose cords. White, pale yellow mature ribbed aperture and lip with teeth. Has few micro defects and the protoconch is chipped. Taken sand at low tide. Freemantle, Perth, Western Australia 1984

Pleuroploca trapezium (Linne 1758) Gorgeous Knobby! F++/F+++ W/O 142 mm. Very beautiful and heavy. Cream/white and tone of yellowish/beige color with brown spiral lines and attractive large spiral knobs. Cream, white aperture with brown ribs and lip with beige marks and teeth, beige canal. Has slightly growth marks, small drill marks mostly on the top, micro defects and a nick on the canal doesn't detract from it's overall beauty. Self collected on stones among sand at shallow water. Ao Na...