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    Cypraea (Bistolida) erythraeensis
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    Cypraea (Bistolida) erythraeensis Sowerby, 1837
    Varied dorsum markings. Unusual locality
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Somalia
    • Size: 15-17mm
    • Grading range for lot: Fine++/Gem
    • Data: Good.
    • Price in U.S. Dollars: $8.00   Convert Currency

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    Cypraea (Bistolida) owenii vasta
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    Cypraea (Bistolida) owenii vasta Schilder & Schilder, 1938
    Subspecies is limited to the western Indian Ocean
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Madagascar
    • Size: 14-15mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Data: Very good.
    • Notes: Varied dorsum markings
    • Price in U.S. Dollars: $20.00   Convert Currency

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    Cypraea (Bistolida) stolida
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    Cypraea (Bistolida) stolida Linné, 1758
    Varied dorsum markings.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Philippines
    • Size: 25-31mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Description: Fully mature specimens. Some dorsum markings reach the margins, others are concentrated near the top. No two are alike.
    • Data: Very Good
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    Cypraea (Blasicrura) teres teres
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    Cypraea (Blasicrura) teres teres Gmelin, 1791
    Taken by divers in the southern Philippines.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Philippines
    • Size: 25-33mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Description: Varied dorsum markings/patterns.
    • Data: Very Good
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    Cypraea (Cribrarula) cribraria
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    Cypraea (Cribrarula) cribraria Linné, 1758
    One of the most recognizible cowries.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Philippines
    • Size: 25-31mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Description: A multitude of patterns.
    • Data: Very Good
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    Cypraea (Cribrarula) pellisserpentis
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    Cypraea (Cribrarula) pellisserpentis Lorenz, 1999
    Endemic to southern Madagascar.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Madagascar
    • Size: 17-20mm
    • Grading: Gem
    • Data: Good
    • Description: Live taken with animal preserved inside shell. Varied patterns on dorsum.
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    Cypraea (Cypraeovula) capensis capensis
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    Cypraea (Cypraeovula) capensis capensis Gray, 1825
    Prominent ribs. Large patch of color on dorsums.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: South Africa
    • Size: 29-31mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Description: Live-taken and of superior quality
    • Data: Very Good
    • Price in U.S. Dollars: $25.00   Convert Currency

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    Cypraea (Cypraeovula) edentula edentula
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    Cypraea (Cypraeovula) edentula edentula Gray, 1825
    The toothless cowrie.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: South Africa
    • Size: 18-20mm
    • Grading range for lot: Fine++ / Gem
    • Description: Live-taken.
    • Data: Very Good
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    Cypraea (Erronea) chinensis chinensis
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    Cypraea (Erronea) chinensis chinensis Gmelin, 1791
    The nominate form of the species.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Indonesia
    • Size: 34-38mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Description: Nice purple spotted margins.
    • Data: Good.
    • Notes: This is the typical form of Cypraea chinensis, among the many varieties found throughout the species' geographical range.
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    Cypraea (Erronea) cylindrica cylindrica
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    Cypraea (Erronea) cylindrica cylindrica Born, 1778
    Nominate form of the species.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Philippines
    • Size: 27-31mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Description: Varied dorsum markings.
    • Data: Very Good
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    Cypraea (Erronea) onyx
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    Cypraea (Erronea) onyx Linné, 1758
    Blue-white cat's eye dorsum patterns.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Philippines
    • Size: 35-44mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Description: Varied adult sizes. Extremely choice, selected specimens.
    • Data: Very Good
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    Cypraea (Erronea) pallida
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    Cypraea (Erronea) pallida Gray, 1824
    Bluish to greenish-gray dorsum coloring.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Singapore
    • Size: 23-27mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Data: Very good.
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    Cypraea (Erronea) pulchella pulchella
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    Cypraea (Erronea) pulchella pulchella Swainson, 1823
    Trawled from deep water.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Thailand
    • Size: 29-36mm
    • Grading range for lot: Fine++ / Gem
    • Description: Large mature shells. Dorsum markings are extremely varied - in fact, no two are alike.
    • Data: Good
    • Notes: This nominate form of Cypraea pulchella has longer columellar teeth than the form Cypraea pulchella pericalles from the western Indian Ocean.
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    Cypraea (Erosaria) boivinii
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    Cypraea (Erosaria) boivinii Kiener, 1843
    Bluish-gray colored gems.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Philippines
    • Size: 22-30mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Description: Somewhat varied -- some specimen have more distinct spots, others more intense color.
    • Data: Very Good
    • Notes: This is the typical form of Cypraea boivinii.
    • Price in U.S. Dollars: $3.00   Convert Currency

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    Cypraea (Erosaria) boivinii
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    Cypraea (Erosaria) boivinii Kiener, 1843
    (+ cuatoni Kosuge, 1983)

    This variant is never found with typical Cypraea boivinii.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Philippines
    • Size: 24-28mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Description: Milky white margins rise up the sides giving the dorsum an milky mauve-brown tint.
    • Data: Detailed.
    • Notes: This form is considered to be a more calloused, deeper water variant of typical Cypraea boivinii.
    • Price in U.S. Dollars: $10.00   Convert Currency

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    Cypraea (Erosaria) citrina dauphinensis
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    Cypraea (Erosaria) citrina dauphinensis Lorenz, 2002
    Regional form. Dark, live taken specimens.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Madagascar
    • Size: 17-20mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Description: Dorsums crowded with spots. Margins and base dark orange
    • Data: Very Good
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    Cypraea (Erosaria) labrolineata
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    Cypraea (Erosaria) labrolineata Gaskoin, 1849
    Dark honey-brown colored specimens. The dorsum looks like a starry night sky.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Philippines
    • Size: 16-20mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Description: Exceptional color/patterns and quality.
    • Data: Very Good.
    • Notes: One of many color forms this species can be found throughout its geographical range.
    • Price in U.S. Dollars: $4.00   Convert Currency

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    Cypraea (Erosaria) lamarckii
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    Cypraea (Erosaria) lamarckii Gray, 1825
    Seemingly a localized form. Varied adult sizes.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Madagascar
    • Size: 30-41mm
    • Grading range for lot: Fine++/Gem
    • Description: Dark markings along margins
    • Data: Good.
    • Notes: A number of names have been applied to localized forms of Cypraea lamarckii throughout its geographical range. I am being conservative by not applying any subspecific name to this form as it seems less defined in this population.
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    Cypraea (Erosaria) lamarckii redimita
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    Cypraea (Erosaria) lamarckii Gray, 1825
    [+ redimita Melvill, 1888]

    A thickly calloused deep water Indian Ocean form.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Thailand
    • Size: 25-28mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Description: The number of marginal brown spots vary considerably.
    • Data: Good
    • Notes: Available from two distinct locations.
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    Cypraea (Erosaria) marginalis melocellata
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    Cypraea (Erosaria) marginalis melocellata Lorenz & Wiese, 1990
    Localized East African subspecies.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Somalia
    • Size: 18-21mm
    • Grading: Gem
    • Data: Good.
    • Description: Varied dorsum ocellations; no two alike.
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    Cypraea (Lyncina) carneola carneola
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    Cypraea (Lyncina) carneola carneola Linné, 1758
    Collected in the early 1970's. Extremely choice
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Saudi Arabia
    • Size: 31-38mm
    • Grading range for lot: Fine+ / Fine++
    • Description: Dorsums crowded with spots. Margins and base dark orange
    • Data: Very Good
    • Notes: A synonym is crassa Gmelin, 1791.
    • Price in U.S. Dollars: $2.00   Convert Currency

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    Cypraea (Macrocypraea) cervinetta
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    Cypraea (Macrocypraea) cervinetta Kiener, 1843
    Beautifully spotted dorsum markings.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Ecuador
    • Size: 55-58mm
    • Grading: Fine++
    • Data: Very Good.
    • Description: All of the specimens in this lot have lots of spots from the margins to the mantle line.
    • Price in U.S. Dollars: $6.00   Convert Currency

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    Cypraea (Mauritia) maculifera
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    Cypraea (Mauritia) maculifera Schilder, 1932
    Sometimes referred to as subspecies hawaiiensis.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Hawaii
    • Size: 65-69mm
    • Grading range for lot: Fine++ / Gem
    • Data: Detailed
    • Price in U.S. Dollars: $12.00   Convert Currency

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    Cypraea (Mauritia) scurra scurra
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    Cypraea (Mauritia) scurra scurra Gmelin, 1791
    This nominate subspecies is limited to the western Indian Ocean.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Madagascar
    • Size: 34-42mm
    • Grading range for lot: Fine++
    • Description: Dorsum patterns vary considerably as well as adult size.
    • Data: Good
    • Price in U.S. Dollars: $5.00   Convert Currency

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    Cypraea (Monetaria) moneta
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    Cypraea (Monetaria) moneta Linné, 1758
    A beautiful yellow-colored population.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Indonesia
    • Size: 13-24mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Data: Good.
    • Notes: Varied adult sizes; some are dwarf adults
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    Cypraea (Neobernaya) spadicea
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    Cypraea (Neobernaya) spadicea Swainson, 1823
    Above average size specimens. Increasingly difficult to find over 2 inches in size.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: California
    • Size: 54-55mm
    • Grading range for lot: Fine++
    • Description: Nicely developed margins
    • Data: Detailed
    • Notes: The dorsum coloring varies from light to dark brown.
    • Price in U.S. Dollars: $15.00   Convert Currency

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    Cypraea (Palmadusta) asellus
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    Cypraea (Palmadusta) asellus Linné, 1758
    Choice shells; pretty patterns.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: East Malaysia
    • Size: 18-21mm
    • Grading range for lot: Fine++ / Gem
    • Description: Not much variation of pattern in this species, except for width of black bands across dorsum.
    • Data: Very Good
    • Price in U.S. Dollars: $2.00   Convert Currency

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    Cypraea (Palmadusta) saulae
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    Cypraea (Palmadusta) saulae Gaskoin, 1843
    Specimens from the southern Philippines.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Philippines
    • Size: 22-25mm
    • Grading range for lot: Fine++/Gem
    • Description: superb dorsum spotting; no two are alike
    • Data: Very good.
    • Notes: Most shells in this lot have a single concentrated blotch on the dorsum as in form siasiensis Cate, 1960, but the blotch in others are in groups of two or more -- see the picture. We've avoided using a form name since the shells do not cleanly fall into one or another form description.
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    Cypraea (Pustularia) bistrinotata bistrinotata
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    Cypraea (Pustularia) bistrinotata bistrinotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937
    Form referred to as keelingensis Sch. & Sch., 1940.
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Philippines
    • Size: 18-20mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Description: Pustulose orange specimens of above average size.
    • Data: Very Good
    • Notes: In the form keelingensis the teeth cover more of the base and dorsal sulcus is almost indiscernible.
    • Price in U.S. Dollars: $7.00   Convert Currency

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    Cypraea (Pustularia) globulus globulus
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    Cypraea (Pustularia) globulus globulus Linné, 1758
    The nominate form of the species
    • Family: CYPRAEIDAE
    • County: Thailand
    • Size: 19-20mm
    • Grading range for lot: Gem
    • Description: Glossy orange shells with faint marginal spots. Above average size.
    • Data: Very Good
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