The cowries were mauritiana and the other shells the woman poured out of the
bag looked like Trochus niloticus. One of the cowries looked like a arabica,
but it might have been a juvenile mauritiana.
Bob
Ellen Bulger wrote:
> They looked to me like humpbacked cowries, Cypraea mauritiana, but I am so
> totally not an expert. I know little about cowries and less about the
> indo-pacific province.
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