Must be the April issue, now what year. :-)

I've seen harry people eat Cypraea tigris but never a harry one by itself.
Martin

Stemke Douglas wrote:
> Many years ago I seem to recall a Cypraea from Alaska featured in (I
> think) Hawaiian Shell News.  Now it look suspeciously like a Cyparae
> tigris with rabbit hair glued on it, but this was before the
> Philippine dealers started widely makeing fakes so it *HAD* to be real...
>
> --- On *Tue, 6/3/08, Moshe Erlendur Okon /<[log in to unmask]>/*
> wrote:
>
>     From: Moshe Erlendur Okon <[log in to unmask]>
>     Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Cypraea norvegica
>     To: [log in to unmask]
>     Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 9:51 AM
>
>     Andrew, there is a Cypraea islandica though. A book for kids I
>     wrote a few years ago. It's about a guy named Erlendur and his
>     daughter Konný, who discover a new Cowrie species in Iceland.
>     Looking for a publisher in the US...
>     Shalom, Moshe Erlendur
>
>     What? There is no Cypraea norvegica?
>     I guess I'll go put these imposters back in the fjord!
>
>     Thanks, Erick and Tom.
>
>     Yours,
>
>     Andrew Vik
>
>

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