Reference: N2069
Beautiful Sand clam - Tridacna derasa, this is an endangered species, from Australia.
Tridacna derasa, commonly known as the Derasa clam or the Smooth Giant Clam, is one of the largest species of clam in the world. These majestic creatures are native to the tropical Indo-Pacific region, including areas such as the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Derasa clams are characterized by their smooth, elongated shells, which can reach impressive sizes.
Supplied with CITES certificate.
Dimensions: 11,5 cm x 30 cm x 19 cm
Weight: 2,22 Kg
Beautiful Sand clam - Tridacna derasa, this is an endangered species, from Australia.
Tridacna derasa, commonly known as the Derasa clam or the Smooth Giant Clam, is one of the largest species of clam in the world. These majestic creatures are native to the tropical Indo-Pacific region, including areas such as the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Derasa clams are characterized by their smooth, elongated shells, which can reach impressive sizes.
Supplied with CITES certificate.
A beautiful glass dome with small Gorgonia from de Indo-Pacific, 3 corals Montipora sp., 6 Conus betulinus and 3 Conus figulinus all from Philippines.
Combined shapes and colours make this glass dome a beautiful decor piece.
Gorgonacea sp. - Red Gorgonian, from Madagascar.
These gorgonians live between 20 and 100 meters deep in vertical walls, caught by divers and prepared in order to maintain their natural color. Like corals, gorgonians are animals living in sessile colonial polyps organized in a tree shape. Its structure is a skeleton both soft and hard, called gorgonine and they do not grow in the direction of the sun but perpendicular to the current in order to filter a maximum of waterflow. Displayed in a black lacquered wood stand, turned into a unique decor item.
An exceptional Spondylus visayensis in a glass dome.
This is a Museum class specimen with 130mm diameter, taken twenty-five years ago by the late E. Guillot de Suduiraut and in our collection since that.
A rare masterpiece of nature.
Busycon perversum is an edible species of very large predatory sea snail or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Busyconidae, the Busycon whelks.
This species has a left-handed or sinistral shell. It eats mostly bivalves.
Mounted in a handmade round brass base, make it a very desirable decor item, from Gulf of Mexico.
A superb polished Haliotis assimilis tray table in satin brass. Look like a Victorian table piece.
With six Haliotis shells polished on both sides, ideal for bringing nuts or sweets to the table.
Unique One of a Kind design piece.
Glass dome with two beautiful Stellaria solaris and three Spondylus variegatus, from Philippines deep water.
An exceptional specimen of pinna nobilis, from Greece, in a handmade brass base.
The specimen came from a old collection, today is impossible to get this size specimen.
One of a Kind decor piece!
Pentaceraster alveolatus is a genus of sea stars in the family Oreasteridae.
Know as Cushion Sea star, occurs in sandy-rocky intertidal regions and on reef platform at depths of 1 to 60 m.
Feeds on carrion and harmless for humans.
Dived from Jetafe - Bohol Isl. Philippines and mounted in a high gloss beige base.
Orange Charonia variegata mounted in an acrylic base.
This rare colored piece for came from the North of Brazil coast and it is very much collectable.
Beautiful marine composition, looking like big mushrooms, made with shark vertebrae and white knobbed sea urchins, all from Madagascar in a natural walnut wood base.
Pair of Ovula ovum in white lacquered wood base.
A beautiful pure white pair of Ovula ovum dived in Punta Engaño - Philippines. This shell species is from centuries ago as special and many tribes use them as personal adornments.
A huge size, close to 140mm Hexaplex regius from Mexico, showing its beautiful aperture with no defects.
Mounted in a black lacquered wood base.
This species of Spongia came from the Florida Keys.
It is a very healthy population once from many years they are fished commercially for bath sponges, these are special pieces turned into great decor objects. The sponges feed on microorganisms that they filter and their larvae are taken by the sea movements making them widespread. Taken by divers from 5 to 40 meters deep.
Mounted in a black lacquered wood stand.
A spectacular Spondylus variegatus attached in a Malleus malleus shell from Davao - Philippines, in a black lacquered wood pedestal.
This is a uncommon attachment that came out by divers from time to time.
The two shells live in perfect symbiosis.
Argonauta hians glass dome with three specimen, from South China Sea.
This small species known as Brown Paper Nautilus habits all tropical and sub tropical seas of the world.
Gorgonocephalus - Astrospartus mediterraneus, a fantastic deep sea starfish, in a new design vitrine with grey lacquered wood base.
This one is taken from a deep of 90 meters of Capo Vado, Savona Italy. It is necessary a special technique to dry and to keep it in a perfect shape, turning it a highly decorative and curious species. Sometimes they are attached to sponges and deep water corals.
This species habits until deeps of 800-900 meters.
A One of a Kind handmade piece.
