CYPRAEIDAE / Cypraea tigris
 


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Cypraea tigris  Linnaeus, 1758

Collected by local fishermen
while diving 10 to 12 meters deep
on muddy sand bottom;
Pemba Island, Tanzania, East Africa;
around 2015

ID10709: 88.5 mm, cloudy overglaced
solid & heavy specimen

12.00 €