Dear All,

Maybe it is a subfossil specimen of deep water cowries
such as sakuraii or langfordi...
Due to the shell is very thin. May be it is just a young
shell. But 47mm tigris is very unusual, or may say very rare?
In addition, the "albino tigres" is so similar to the "albino
sakuraii" according the photos. At least the sakuraii is
a young shell, I think. Anyway, this is a interesting topics.

And, could you give me some advice about this 'rosseri edingeri'?

http://www.bg.wakwak.com/~philn/shell/piclib/html/takara/cyp-edingeri.html

Best wishes & Good shelling!

-
Jiongtao Huang
http://www.soft.ics.keio.ac.jp/~huang/


>From: Flavio Favero <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Cypraea tigris incana
>Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:25:13 +0100
>
>In 09.15 08/01/2002 +0000, hai scritto:
> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >    Could some of you experts on cypraea please look at the following
URL and
> > tell me what I am looking at? I have never seen a Cypraea tigris incana
> > before and a little bit skeptical of this shell. Maybe someone can
>confirm my
> > instinct to what it is.
> >
> >
> >
<http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1057479382>http://
> > cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1057479382
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Andrew
>
>
>I think it's impossible to understand what specimen is it with so bad
>pictures.
>And thinking to bid at that price with only tre bad photo i think it could
be
>very
>hazardous. I am curious to wait what's happen at the end of the
>auction.....:-))
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