Dear Paul, Dear all
 
I looked some English translations in the Compendium but I didn't
find morning Cowrie. The translation or common name for
Cypraea mauritiana here is Humpback Cowrie. If morning cowrie
is a common name why don't  they give other common names
as evening cowry or middays cowrie, as there are no rules to
give common names.
 
yours Helmut from Innsbruck
 
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> The cowrie usually referred to as "morning cowrie" is Cypraea
> mauritiana L.  I don't know the origin of this common name.  The
> scientific name refers to a locality - Mauritius - not to morning.
> The species whose scientific name does refer to morning (or more
> specifically to daybreak or dawn) is Cypraea diluculum Reeve.
> Paul M.
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