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Re: Survivor Chow
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Robert & Betty Lipe <[log in to unmask]>
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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:23:44 -0500
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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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