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>By the way regarding common names, <And how about Cypraea
Testudinaria?><
testudo is the latin word for turtle.
The origin is the word testa which means shell, so this is the shelled
cowry shell :-), and it has nothing to do with Turd-les or doo-doo.
BTW nice to have met you in Aarshot.
Greetings from Germany
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