In the coloration and spotting it looks like
Cypraea boivinii.
with best shelling greetings
Helmut

 --- Patty Jansen <[log in to unmask]> schrieb: >
Dear all,
>
> I have a cowrie that defies identification. I've
> been all over Lorenz &
> Hubert, but I do not know what it is. Ross Mayhew
> has been so kind to put
> it up on the Conch-l identification site
> http://www.geocities.com/conchlimages/. There was
> one more image he didn't
> put up, showing the side of the shell. It shows
> clearly that the margin is
> slightly pitted, so I suppose it's in the Erosaria
> group. It also has a
> rather low dorsum, like errones, not like C. lynx
> which it resembles
> somewhat in the photograph. The shell is from Sagami
> Bay in Japan
>
> Patty
>
> Dr. Patty Jansen
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