Dear Harry and Emilio,
very interesting information indeed.
I can joing the following:
edentula : one private collection containing 5
and 2 more in Belgian collections
(all are dead Jeffreys Bay specimen)
I can confirm that your shell is not the De Bruin shell, as I have it.
So, this brings the total on 9 specimens. Still a very rare collector's
item.
fuscodentata: we had one, the one from the Liltved book.
capensis: there was one on the list of the Abbey about 5 years ago, but this
one can be one of the specimens mentioned below.
I'm curious to know how many non South African ones are known today. I've
never even seen one in 28 years swimming in conchological waters.
Guido
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> From: "Harry G. Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:36:21 -0400
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Sinistral Cypraeovula
>
> Dear Emilio and sinistral and/or cowrie fanciers,
>
> Since you have been left high-and-dry in cyberspace in the recent campaign
> for info- on sinistral Cypraeovula, let me cough up some of the notes I
> have accumulated over the last 33 years (the first sinistral cowrie came to
> [published] light in 1967; four years after Franz Alfred Schilder
> pronounced "nobody will find a sinistral cowry"):
>
> C. capensis: To the two shells collected by Mariette Jearey
> <http://home.sprynet.com/~wfrank/jearey.htm>, add the specimens reported by
> (1) S. Peter Dance (1972), collected by Viva Armstrong in 1970 at Sunrise
> on Sea, RSA and later in the collection of Enrico Caponetti (Naples,
> Italy), (2) Gwen Pini's (Innisfail, Australia) shell, apparently collected
> not long afterwards at Jeffreys Bay, RSA, and (3) a specimen in the
> collection of Luigi Raybaudi Massilia illustrated by Burgess (1985). No
> two the same (I looked at all three illustrations closely). That makes five.
>
> C. edentula: My shell is probably not the same as one (possibly more)
> cited by Bruno deBruin (1994) and one (possibly the same as Bruno's) cited
> by Pat Burgess (1985). Conclusion: probably two or more.
>
> C. fuscodentata: Same situation as above.
>
> C. fuscorubra (forgive me if this isn't a Cypraeovula; I am quite ignorant
> of the generic-assignment-du-jour): One collected in 1994 by, and reported
> that year by, Bruno.
>
> There may be more in the pages of The Conoisseur, a slick periodical
> published by Massilia, which I regrettably lack in my library.
>
> No matter how you split it, there is a disproportionate number of South
> African cowries among the small number of sinistral shells of the
> Cypraeidae known to us.
>
> I can provide references on request.
>
> Harry
>
>
> At 11:36 AM 6/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
>> Hello!
>> Hi to all,
>>
>> I am trying to do a head count on
>> sinistral coiled Cypraeovula from
>> South Africa for inclusion on my
>> upcoming website on the
>> Endemic Cypraeovula of South Africa.
>>
>> Could anyone with information as to
>> specimens/location[recent] please
>> let me know. Recent [as of date]
>> location is important as specimens may
>> change hands and I would not want to do
>> a multiple count of the same one.
>>
>> Need:
>> Species and location [either personal
>> coll or museum]
>>
>> Dr. Lee has one each sinistral edentula
>> and a fuscodentata.
>> A good start I suppose!!
>>
>> Later,
>>
>> Emilio Jorge Power
> Harry G. Lee
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