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#2 Conus (Rhizoconus) Pertusus Pertusus - \"Pertusus Cone\" - Large - Color For Sale
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#2 Conus (Rhizoconus) Pertusus Pertusus - \"Pertusus Cone\" - Large - Color: $25.00
About this shell: #2 Conus (Rhizoconus) Pertusus Pertusus - \"Pertusus Cone\"
$25
- Name: Conus (Rhizoconus) Pertusus Pertusus
- Author: Hwass, 1792
- Common Name: Pertusus Cone
- Size: 45.25 mm
- Locality: Horseshoe, Okinawa
- Origin: Found dead at 120 feet.
Big specimen with beautiful coloring and pattern. Perfect spire, aperture and base. Good lip and whirl - heeled injury at top of whirl.
Thisis part of our late father\'s large collection of seashells he obtained whilestationed on Okinawa, Japan in 1974-1978. He was an avid scuba diver andseashell collector.My sister and I were his diving buddies. Each with a Hawaiian backpack that he madefor all of us, we would wear double 72s so that we could go down deep, usually100-140 feet. The long decompressiontimes were spent looking in every nook and cranny of the coral wall at variousdepths. His interests in shells grewfrom more than the Indo-Pacific species when he engaged in trading his shellswith some of the prominent collectors around the world.
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