The collectors page
from: New Zealand GEOGRAPHIC - 1990
RARE
UNCOMMON
UNUSUAL
AND JUST PLAIN
KOOL !
Camaena mamilla
crassiventrisRensch,1933.  
$15.00
Papuina lacteolota japenensis
Van Benthem Jutting,1965.
36+mm. New Guinea.         $12
Drymaeus dombeyanus
(Pfeiffer,1846). Central
Mexico.44mm.+   $20
Camaena illustris (Pfr.).
30mm.up.                $20.00
Obba papilla konawensis
Bollinger,1918. 32mm $7
Tricheulota gloriosa
32mm.up.               $6.00
Calocochlia
tukanensis
30mm. up.  Rare
(Color forms).      
 $10.00
MEXICO
Acroptychia metableta
(Crosse/Fischer,1877)
25mm.                        $10.00
PHILIPPINES
MADAGASCAR
Camaena cicatricosa
ducalis (Ancey).60mm.up.
$25.00
INDONESIA
Helicophanta farafanga
(H.Adams, 1875). 90mm.up. One
of the rarest members of the
family.                          $45.00
AUSTRALIA
Thersities etheridgei (Brazier,1877)
Mid Queensland. 34+mm.  Rare.       
                                                 $10.00
Ampelita gaudens
Mabile,1888. 65mm.up.
One of the largest of the
genus.                  $30.00
Calocochlia festiva
(Donovan,1825). 35mm.+
$6.50
Calocochlia cailliaudi
Deshayes,1839. 34mm.+
$4.00
Calocochlia cailliaudi
Deshayes,1839. 35mm.+
$4.00
Solomon  Islands
Crystallopsis hunteri
Cox.      25+mm.        $7.00
Crystallopsis purchasi  (Pfeiffer,1858). Subsp.
paravicinnii Rensch,1933.  26mm+.          $9.00
Calocochlia pyrostoma (Ferussac,1819).
50+mm. Halmahera Island. Big, Beautiful !  $15.00ea.
Three color forms.
Rhiostoma species. Left from border with Cambodia and Thailand.  Right
with R. smithi. W/o. Average size 34mm.+ x 25mm.+  A good friend from
Belgium, Rene Vanwalleghem has written me with the feeling that this is a
R. chupingense or a form of it and not smithi.                                          $9.00
smithi
THAILAND and  CAMBODIA
Dyakia salangana (Martens,1883).
37mm.up. From border areas between Thailand and
Cambodia.                                                               $8.00
Photo by; chan Sow Yan
Calocochlia cailliaudi
Deshayes,1839. 34mm.+
many color forms.     $4.00
Camaena quoyi  Sulawasi
Collected live! 50mm.+
RARE!                         $25.00
Collected live!!
Camaena species. China
34mm.  COMMING SOON
THE CANARY ISLANDS
These following species are shells you almost never see anywhere.
These are true collector shells; small, brown, step on them shells.
A few are so sculpted, they are just amazing!! Not many of any!
Hemicycla bidentalis
Lamarck,1822. 18mm.  $6.50
Hemicycla saulcyi carta
D'Orbigny,1839. 25mm.
Sub-fossil, Extinct.       $7.00
Hemicycla gaudryi Webb/
Berthelott,1839.  20+mm.
$6.50
Hemicycla ethelema Mabille,
1882. 23mm.                    $6.50
Canariella eutropis          $6
Shuttleworth,1860.  12mm.+
Orthalicus floridensis
Collected in the 70's.
50+mm.                        $7
Orthalicus reses Say,
1830. Rare. Protected
by law. Collected in
the 70's. only 3       $10
Oxystyla pulchella
(Spix,1827. 35mm.      $4
Hemicycla psathyra temperata Mousson,
1872. 26-27mm.                                      $7.50
Order at:
steve@specimenlandshellsales.com
Camaena
mamilla mamilla
Ferussac,1838.
Sulawasi
Island. 35mm.up.
     $12.00
Columna columna
(Muller,1774). Roca
Terreiro Velho, SE
Principe Island.
55mm.up. A real
collectors shell. Not a
lot of these. See page 7
PRINCIPE ISLAND
Hey, when was the last time you saw this species for
sale?
Well actually its been a long, long time. Did you know
that it has been against the law to collect these for
several years? Once a shell that cost 50. to $1.00 now
sells for ten times that much and more.
Recently these were selling for $18-$20.00ea. on the
web by a well known dealer who had to collect them
themselves. This species was once collected by the
1000's in Sri Lanka, but no longer. Now protected by
law you can only get a few here and there! The major
supplier of these shells lost his business on the 26 of
December a few years ago when it was washed away by
one of the worst tidal waves in history that hit Sri
Lanka. Hundreds of thousands died in that event!
These are from the edge of the Sinharaja forest, Sri   
Lanka.These are F+ or better. Only a dozen or two
$12.00                                                               $8.00
ACAVUS PHOENIX & HAEMASTOMA
Levantina hierosolyma
Mousson,1854. 34+mm.
Jerusalem. Tough and
rugged shells.           $6.50
Levantina werneri Kobelt,
1889. Bareqet, Israel.
Very rounded, tough .
32+mm.                   $6.50
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND        
                    HAPPY HOLIDAY'S