During the eighties, some people considered there was only one valid
genus, Cypraea. Thus, as mariae was still assigned to an other species,
your cowry was named matellum.
Today, as one recognizes many geni in Cypraeidae, the epithet mariae is,
again, valid. Annepona mariae (Schilder, 1927).

Regards

Olivier Caro

Keith Zeilinger wrote:
> I have apparently just found a freshly dead, mature, 19mm, specimen of
> Cypraea mantellum Walls and Burgess, 1980...

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