answer from Helmut Nisters
should your genus-name be Cypraea or Cepaea. Cypaea
I don't know for the moment.
Cy will be not be u but like. Do you say Kuepraea or
Cipraea as with ue. Cepaea is spelling with Ce (Ze)
please think about this
 
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> And what about the proper pronounciation of Cypaea?? its should be approx.
> Kupraea (the "u" sounding like the German "u") and the aea all apart.
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> > Van: mark <[log in to unmask]>
> > Aan: [log in to unmask]
> > Onderwerp: What do we do?
> > Datum: vrijdag 1 mei 1998 13:11
> >
> > Bobby, you wrote:
> > Yeah right....what do you do with all those shells that have no common
> > names?  Or like I said the Floridians that call coquinas....periwinkles?
> >
> > In the case of periwinkles being called coquinas well even us "common"
> > people sometimes miss the mark so to speak . Most collectors I know call
> a
> > coquina a coquina, and a periwinkle a periwinkle . But many Latin names
> are
> > tossed about too, what ever happened to "polinces"? I read probably two
> > dozen messages not long ago about how polinces is now being called
> something
> > else entirely different . What's up with that ? Or how about the
> legendary
> > "lion's paw" , anyone found a proper  Latin name for that one yet?????
> {oh
> > that must have stung a bit}
> > We also have another funny little thing about "Latin", it's a dead
> language
> > and thusly i hear several butchered Latin names as there are no
> indigenous
> > Latins speaking this anymore. My favorite revised Latin name is
> "busycon".
> > Many of you in the shelling community pronounce this boozycon?
> > ITS BUSY not boozy. If your using english as your native tongue then use
> > vowels properly. Well what do you think there Sir Art, have we made the
> > case? mark
>