Patty,

I'd say it's more like gangranosa. The dorsum
looks much like my specimens, but the dark
posterior and anterior blotches aren't quite
the same. Maybe someone out there could
describe to us the differences between
boivinii and gangranosa. Both are really
variable in shape and pattern as far as I've
seen.

Peter Egerton


At 09:08 AM 6/26/01 +0200, you wrote:
>In the coloration and spotting it looks like
>Cypraea boivinii.
>with best shelling greetings
>Helmut
>
> --- Patty Jansen <[log in to unmask]> schrieb: >
>Dear all,
>>
>> I have a cowrie that defies identification. I've
>> been all over Lorenz &
>> Hubert, but I do not know what it is. Ross Mayhew
>> has been so kind to put
>> it up on the Conch-l identification site
>> http://www.geocities.com/conchlimages/. There was
>> one more image he didn't
>> put up, showing the side of the shell. It shows
>> clearly that the margin is
>> slightly pitted, so I suppose it's in the Erosaria
>> group. It also has a
>> rather low dorsum, like errones, not like C. lynx
>> which it resembles
>> somewhat in the photograph. The shell is from Sagami
>> Bay in Japan
>>
>> Patty
>>
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