argus contracasta 1

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Live under dead coral slabs, in conglomerated coral along shallow fringing reefs, collected by local Maldivians divers.

Reference 1.W3-240.239

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Data sheet

Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Arestorides
Species: argus
Subspecies: contracasta
Author: Lorenz, 2012
Size (mm): 64.8
Country: Maldives Is.
Locality: South atoll, Guraidu Is.
Range: Indian Ocean, Eastern, Africa from Somalia the Tanzania to Zanzibar Is. Kenya, Chagos Is and, Aldabra, to the Maldives Seychelles, and, Mozambique to the Comores, West, Coasts
Madagascar and Mascarenes Basin, Mauritius, to, Malaysia and Andaman Sea Thailand.
Grading: Gem
Collected in: 1986
Ranking: *** uncommon
Meters: -20