CASSIDAE / Semicassis saburon
 

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Semicassis saburon  (Bruguière, 1792) 

Collected from shallow water shrimp trawler,
between 20 to 25 meters depth on sandy mud
bottom; Port Gentil, Gabon, West Africa;
November 2013

ID 7394: 49.6 mm,  F++

West African form (slightly different than the €pean form);
small defects on channel

7.50 €