BC055 Umbilia armeniaca f. “verawestralis”

Awesome specimen, live taken, collected by Rov at 238 meters depth. Superb shell with dark brown patterned dorsum and strong peach base and margins. The name of this great shell hasn’t yet described in a proper taxonomic way, but it has been proposed by Ray Walker, who found these shells in very limited number on W. Australia south coast between Walpole through to the east of Esperance. These shells differ significantly in colour and shape from both andreyi and GAB armeniaca, and soon this year will have an official name. This species is of very good quality except for a…